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Dear Colleagues,

 

A faculty member I know is interested in creating a digital repository of 19th and early 20th century Ottoman Turkish newspapers.  She is at the initial planning phase of this project.  The newspapers are all in Ottoman Turkish, which used the Persian alphabet (which is apparently a modified form of the Arabic alphabet—Arabic with the addition of a few extra characters).  Do any of you know of any OCR software that can read this alphabet?  Anything capable of reading Ottoman or Persian would suffice.

 

Many thanks,

EW

 

Eric M. Wolf

Director of the Library

New York School of Interior Design

170 E. 70th Street

New York, NY 10021

(212) 472-1500 x216

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