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Rezvan E. Correspondence Round table: Arabic/Farsi OCR // Manuscripta Orientalia. Vol. 1, No 3, December 1995. P. 47.
The Arabic OCR was and still is one of the most beloved babies of the group of St. Petersburg scholars. The
transformation of the pure academic project into the software product with good market possibilities took place in
a very short period of time and under the heavy pressure of “post-perestroyka” realities in the ex-USSR, sometimes
sad, sometimes tragic... Ex-Soviet academic science and scholarship, Cinderellas at the ball of “new Russians”, had
to find their own way for survival in the situation of sharp budget cuttings — in 1995 the budget of several academic
institutions with the world-wide fame was 200 times (!) less 1han that of 1985. The case of Arabic OCR, conceived
and produced in St. Petersburg, is just one example of the new approach to the existing problems. To my
mind, the final success of the project was based on the “three whales”: the scholarly background of the specialists
from the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, the talent and
diligence of the group of young Russian programmers previously connected with ex-Soviet high-tech military industry,
and last but not least, the broadmindedness of young and talented General Manager of al-Alamiah, Cairo,
Dr. Ashraf Zaki. The OCR project is a good example of possible cooperation between different Russian and Arabic
institutions, cooperation which is replacing now the years of ideologically based relations between the USSR and
the Arab world...
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