Developing Optical Character Recoginition for Ethiopic Scripts

The Amharic language is the Official language of over 70 million people mainly in Ethiopia. An extensive literature survey and the government report reveal no single Amharic character recognition is found in the country. The Amharic script has 33 basic characters each with seven orders giving 310 distinct characters, including numbers and punctuation symbols. The characters are visually similar; there is a typeface, but no capitalization. Beside this there is no any standard font to use the language in the computer but they use different fonts developed by different stakeholders without keeping a standard on their own way and interest and this create a problem of incompatibility between different fonts and documents.This project is to investigate the reason why Amharic optical character recognition is not addressed by local and international researchers and developers and finally to develop Amharic optical character recognition uses the features and facilities of Microsoft windows Vista or 7 using Unicode standard.

The contendings of the apostles; being the histories of the lives and martyrdoms and deaths of the twelve apostles and evangelists. The Ethiopic texts now first ed. from manuscripts in the British museum,

Titles in red and black.

A narrative of four voyages : to the South sea, north and south Pacific ocean, Chinese sea, Ethiopic and southern Atlantic ocean, Indian and Antarctic ocean ; from the year 1822 to 1831 ... /

Mode of access: Internet.

Ethiopic grammar,

Mode of access: Internet.

Il "Gadla 'Aragâwî". Memoria del Socio Ignazio Guidi. Letta nella seduta del 21 giugno 1891.

"Sommario analitico": p. 88-93.

Corpus scriptorum christianorum Orientalium.

Imprint varies.

Reise in Abyssinien /

Cover title on Atlas: Abbildungen zur Reise in Abyssinien.

Primi Ezrae libri qui apud vulgatam appellatur quartus, versio aethiopica;

Ethiopic title at head of title-page.

Ascensio Isaiae vatis, opusculum pseudepigraphum, multis abhinc seculis, ut videtur, deperditum, nunc autem apud aethiopas compertum /

Title in Ethiopic characters at head of t.-p.

Die Philosophie des neopythagoreers Secundus;

Arabic and Ethiopic texts reproduced from manuscript copy.

Vie de Lalibala, roi d'Éthiopie : texte éthiopien publié d'après un manuscrit du Musée britannique et traduction française, avec un résumé de l'histoire des Zagüés et la description des églises monolithes de Lalibala /

Text of the manuscript: British Museum, Oriental manuscript no. 718.