Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Electronic Library Project response

[Dilworth B. Parkinson]

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Date: 24 Aug 2000
From: Joseph Norment Bell <joseph.bell at msk.uib.no>
Subject: Arabic Electronic Library Project response

If Princeton has microfilmed as many old Arabic texts as they set out to do,
these can easily be converted to graphic files and compressed. Scanning old
fonts, on the other hand (even the ones that look simple generally are not),
is tricky.

Joseph Bell

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