Dear Alasdair, Many thanks for your very helpful and prompt reply. Best wishes, Peter On 14 July 2010 14:42, Alasdair Watson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear Peter, > > Both volumes of the Kazimirski dictionary are available in several > versions and formats from the Internet Archive. See: > > http://www.archive.org/details/dictionnaireara00goog > > http://www.archive.org/details/dictionnaireara01goog > > http://www.archive.org/details/dictionnairearab01bibeuoft > > http://www.archive.org/details/dictionnairearab02bibeuoft > > > The OCR version which is the 'full text' format is riddled with errors > and does not feature a comprehensible Arabic script no matter how one > tries to change the encoding of the page. Not much help I'm afraid, but > for your information nonetheless. > > Best wishes, > > Alasdair Watson > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Circulation list for MELCOM UK > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Peter Colvin > Sent: 14 July 2010 13:04 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Digitised Arabic dictionaries > > Dear Colleagues, > > As part of the YS-IMG (Yale-SOAS Islamic Manuscript Project) we are > planning to OCR digitised versions of either Biberstein Kazimirski's > Dictionnaire arabe-francais of Dozy's Supplement aux dictionnaires > arabes. > > Does anybody whether there are already OCR'ed digitised versions of > these dictionaries available on the internet? > > Peter Colvin >