[Corpora-List] need ocr for arabic transcription

[Hanna Schaufelberger]

Hello!
I am looking for an electronic corpus of Egyptian Arabic Data available for
students. I have been trying to establish my own corpus of Egyptian Arabic
text, but I have had trouble finding an optical character recognition
program (software) which works with the "invented" latin alphabet letters of
the arabic transcription alphabet. Can you recommend a trainable ocr which
works with letters that are not part of the alphabet of any language? Is
there such a corpus available, already?
Thank you very much.
H. Schaufelberger




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