I am considering acquisition of Arabic optical character recognition software for a personal project. I am particularly interested in OCR software that would allow manipulation of Arabic-alphabet and roman-alphabet text. I any of my colleagues on Melanet or Lis-Middle-East has experience with Arabic OCR or knows someone who has, I would appreciate any information, recommendations, etc., posted to me personally and not to either list. If anyone knows of a listserv that might have pertinent information, I would be grateful for the reference. With best wishes, Ed Jajko Edward A. Jajko Deputy Curator Middle East Collection Hoover Institution Stanford, California USA 94305-6010 tel.: 650-723-2050 fax 650-723-9852 e-mail: [log in to unmask] http://www.hoover.org http://www.stanford.edu