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Dear Alasdair,

Many thanks for your very helpful and prompt reply.

Best wishes,

Peter

On 14 July 2010 14:42, Alasdair Watson
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> 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
>