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Asalam-o-alekum,
I have created a SSIS package which takes BOK file (which is basically an Access database), and loads it into a SQL Server database. All connections are manual so for every book I have to change input and output connections.

Secondly the data stored is not in Unicode but Windows Arabic encoding. The package changes the encoding also so the final tables in SQL Server have Unicode text. I have started using this text in Hujatul-lahi baligha text on my site (Karachvi.com ).

I thought of creating a Java based software today that'll do two things, first it'll take BOK file, convert data from Windows Arabic to Unicode and then user can either generate a HTML file or can have the option to store the data in a SQL Server database.

Today I found 2 new things. One is UCanAccess which is an open source Java library for working with Access database, and other is HTMLBook format which is a W3C initiative. So now I am thinking that the output of my application should also be in HTMLBook format.

Let's see when I can achieve these goals.

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