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A Finite State Transducer (FST) based Font Converter

by Sriram Chaudhury, Shubhamay Sen, Gyanranjan Nandi
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International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 58 - Number 17
Year of Publication: 2012
Authors: Sriram Chaudhury, Shubhamay Sen, Gyanranjan Nandi
10.5120/9376-3852

Sriram Chaudhury, Shubhamay Sen, Gyanranjan Nandi . A Finite State Transducer (FST) based Font Converter. International Journal of Computer Applications. 58, 17 ( November 2012), 35-39. DOI=10.5120/9376-3852

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title = { A Finite State Transducer (FST) based Font Converter },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { November 2012 },
volume = { 58 },
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pages = { 35-39 },
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Abstract

This paper describes the rule based approach towards the development of an Oriya Font Converter that effectively converts the SAMBAD and AKRUTI proprietary font to standardize Unicode font. This can be very much helpful towards electronic storage of information in the native language itself, proper search and retrieval. Our approach mainly involves the Apertium machine translation tool that uses Finite State Transducers for conversion of symbolic data to standardized Unicode Oriya font. To do so it requires a map table mapping the commonly used Oriya syllables in Proprietary font to its corresponding font code and the dictionary specifying the rules for mapping the proprietary font code to Unicode font. Further some unhandled symbols that appear in the intermediate converted file are rectified by Flex scanner tool. The converted text thus obtained is in standard Unicode font and remains unchanged as Unicode font is supported by almost all the platforms.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Oriya font converter Proprietary font to Unicode font converter A Finite State Transducer based font Converter Font converter for Indian language Rule based font conversion Apertium in font conversion

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