Arabic-L:GEN:CD ROM responses

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Date: 23 Nov 1999
From: Stefan Reichmuth <stefan.reichmuth at ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Subject: CD ROM response

Both Quran and Hadith are available from Sakhr editors. Several Arabic
newspapers are now available in WWW, readable by Acrobat. Al-Hayat started
to produce CD Rom versions for each completed year some time ago.

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2)
Date: 23 Nov 1999
From: Jan Hoogland <j.hoogland at let.kun.nl>
Subject: CD ROM response

>We are looking for the following items on cd roms, with the view
>towards use in teaching and research:

The Holy Quran	see Sakhr website or Arramedia
hadith collections	same

>Arabic newspapers (al-Ahram?)

As far as I know only Al Hayat is available on CD-ROM
However, Al Ahram is available on the Web, just take a day or two to
download from their archives and you'll be ready too.

>English/Arabic, English/German dictionaries

Sakhr's Al Qamoos vs. 4 includes German and Arabic (and English, French and
Turkish). However, loading all languages makes the program really slow.
Just 3 languages (in my case English, French and Arabic) is OK.

Hope this helps.
Good luck,
Consultant Jan (don't know if I'm senior consultant or junior, maybe that's
up to you to decide).

Jan (Abu Samir) Hoogland
Department of Arabic, Nijmegen University (the Netherlands)

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3)
Date: 23 Nov 1999
From:  Karen W <karen at webcombo.net>
Subject: CD ROM response

I find the Universal Translator Deluxe by LanguageForce to be one of the
best. You can find information about this program at:
http://www.gvae.com.au/products/Language/universal_translator_deluxe.htm
This program has voice command technology and translates omnidirectionally
in 33 languages, including Arabic.
Karen Wenokur
karen at webcombo.net

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4)
Date: 23 Nov 1999
From: GnhBos at aol.com
Subject: CD ROM response

Dear Jonathan,

We are able to supply with a Multilingual Harf Holy Qur'an
on two CD-ROMs, and the Hadith (all nine books on 1 CD).

We have Arabic and multilingual OCR programs from Sakhr.
Sakhr's Automatic Reader 5.0 is a Multilingual OCR,
Optical Character Recognition program, sets world
standards in accuracy and speed for converting
scanned documents to editable text files. Sakhr's
OCR builds entire archives in Arabic, Farsi, English,
and ten European languages without typing a single
character.  Sakhr's OCR program is a dependable and
time saving solution.

Sakhr's OCR (Professional or Office) can easily create,
collect, access, and index documents in just minutes.
Preserves layout, columns, tables, and graphics of the
original documents.  Results are checked Automatically
against the originals.  Users can access Sakhr's award
winning suite of dictionaries and text handling tools
directly from Automatic Reader or from within MS Arabic
Word, Office 95, or Office 97.

KEY FEATURES:

Multilingual: Recognize English and Arabic or English
and Farsi within the same 'pass'. Higher Accuracy: 99%
accuracy on laser-quality fonts.  Ten minutes training
raises accuracy to 99.8%. Faster Speed: Recognize up
to 500 characters per second. Choices: Speed of
intelligent Omni technology, or accuracy of pretrained
font recognition; displaying Arabic diacritical markings,
or not. Flexibility: Recognize documents of widely
varying print quality; include or exclude parts of image
files. Retain columns, tables, graphics, or font features
that are key ingredients of documents. Supports HTML and
Unicode, as well as TIF, PCX, BMP, MAG, TGA, GIF, DCX,
and JPG image files. New: Text Boxes control recognition
of text; Auto adjusts image position; Personal Archiver
edits and saves images; Direct Link to email for sending
text output. Wizards guide new users through scanning to
saving the new text file. Tutorial: Trains new OCR users.

Automatic Reader utilizes Sakhr's innovative Arabic/Farsi
OCR engine with Scansoft's award-winning TextBridge.
OCR 13 languages, as well as bilingual text: Arabic,
Farsi, English, French, German, Austrian, Italian,
Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, and
Finnish.

Automatic Reader 5.0 is available in two versions:

The OFFICE Version--OCR capabilities in Arabic and English
only; also bilingual documents.  This version provides top
quality Omni technology for conversion of scanned text.
The Office Version does not have a batch mode feature,
spell checker, OLE and DDE capabilities, or trainability.
Price $300.00.

The PROFESSIONAL Version-OCR in Arabic, Farsi, English,
bilingual documents, and ten additional languages.  This
version also adds training technology to Omni technology
to further raise accuracy levels.  Users access 4 batch
modes, can train the program in specific fonts, use spell
checkers, Arabic linguistic rules, and OLE and DDE
features. Price $1399.00.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Pentium PC, VGA, CDROM,
16MB RAM, minimum 65MB storage available on hard disk
MS Arabic Windows 95/98/NT-WS (for Farsi and Arabic)
MS Windows 95/NT-WS (for the other 11 languages).

George N. Hallak

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