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All this problems occur because we don't have a normal standard for armenian font layout. after it'll be done we'll have normal fonts and keyboard driver.

By the way anybody knows about an armenian OCR program ? I've heard FineReader has that option but on their web site there's no Armenian among the other 52 languages it supports.

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Ararat,

 

I understand your difficulties with typing in Armenian. Here are few remarks.

 

None of the drivers are "russified" - it's just the difference in Eastern and Western Armenian pronunciation and lack of English letters. Example - our great host writes (and pronounces) his name Garo, while in Hayastan we say "K"aro where "K" is a tough, totally different sound than English K or G. This sound does not exist in Western Armenian either. So software developers Armenia put whatever they thought is the closest match and availability. For 36th letter of Armenian alphabet they chose "Q", which I think perfectly fine. I think to avoid this confusion, you better use typewriter, rather than phonetic layout. Tiny sticky notes with Armenian character on them will do the trick.

 

I use KDWin and I'm pretty happy with it. It has Armenian Phonetic, Standard and Typewriter layouts plus a bunch of other languages, plus few pre-installed Armenian fonts. You can download it from http://www.download.am/armenian/index.html where you will also find additional fonts. You can get more and cooler fonts at http://www.armsite.com/software/index.html

Finally, you can learn how to set your browser to recognize Armenian text and you e-mail client to type at http://www.armsite.com/preview/index.html

 

Hope this helps.

Take care

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Garo, I know of a a guy, who currently resides in Aremnia. I think he can answer your question. If I am not mistaken, he has authored some products along the lines of your inquiry. I see him frequently on ICQ (almost every day). Let me know if you are interested in talking to him.

 

 

 

[This message has been edited by MJ (edited August 31, 2000).]

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Yes please MJ. I don't use ICQ chat much but you can give me his ICQ# or ask him for email address. We need a good OCR software.

I'd like to try his version. I remember there was one made in Armenia and it was doing only one thing good - crashing you computer! And they were asking about $400 for that. I prefer press Ctrl+Alt+Del instead of paying that much just to restart my copmuter ;-)

 

 

By the way I've put some Armenian fonts and keyboard drivers here just in case anybody needs them. Please don't link to that place. I may delete them or move somewhere else.

 

[This message has been edited by Garo (edited August 30, 2000).]

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Actually there are very powerful OCR softwares on the market that allow to write special plugins for almost any language. They have powerful OCR engines for that purpose. Mnuma mek@ nsti plugin gri ;-)

Yes cankutyun unem bayc hnaravorutyun chunem arayjm.

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