Projects

The FreeType Project

FreeType 2 is a software font engine that is designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable and portable while capable of producing high-quality output (glyph images). It can be used in graphics libraries, display servers, font conversion tools, text image generation tools, and many other ... [More] products as well. Note that FreeType 2 is a font service and doesn't provide APIs to perform higher-level features, like text layout or graphics processing (e.g., colored text rendering, "hollowing", etc.). However, it greatly simplifies these tasks by providing a simple, easy to use and uniform interface to access the content of font files. FreeType 2 is released under two open-source licenses: our own BSD-like FreeType License and the GPL. [Less]

XeTeX

A typesetting system by Jonathan Kew and SIL International based on a merger of Donald Knuth's TeX system with Unicode and modern font technologies (multiple languages, support for AAT and OpenType advanced font features, trivial font installation).

Fontmatrix

A font manager for Linux. Fontmatrix is aimed at adventurous graphic designers and typesetters who need to manage hundreds and even thousands of fonts for their work – avoiding the need to browse overly long lists in dialogs. Basically, Fontmatrix helps you to do three things: * Activating ... [More] and deactivating fonts * Tagging fonts with sets * Generating font “books” as PDF. [Less]

HarfBuzz

HarfBuzz is an OpenType text shaping engine.

Tsukurimashou

Font meta-family, multiple styles, for Japanese, English, and Korean, made with Metafont. Full coverage of hiragana, katakana, hangul, and Latin. Partial coverage of grade-school kanji. Also includes IDSgrep, a tool for querying kanji databases by partial layout, like a more advanced version of the ... [More] popular "radical search." Includes code to generate dictionaries from Tsukurimashou, KanjiVG, and EDICT2. 作りましょうは、Ｍｅｔａｆｏｎｔで作った日本語と英語と韓国語のフォントファミリ。カバレッジはぜんぶのひらがなとカタカナとハングルとＬａｔｉｎ。第２年の教育漢字と半の第３年の教育漢字。予定は、ぜんぶの常用漢字です。明朝、ゴシック、外のスタイル。その上、ＩＤＳｇｒｅｐあります。漢字の探すツール。『作りましょう』や『ＫａｎｊｉＶＧ』や『ＥＤＩＣＴ２』から辞典の抽出ができます。 [Less]

PascalType

PascalType is a library which is meant for reading (and writing) true type and open font files.

Amiri font

Amiri is a classical Arabic typeface in Naskh style for typesetting books and other running text. Its design is a revival of the beautiful typeface pioneered in early 20th century by Bulaq Press in Cairo, also known as Amiria Press, after which the font is named.

hocr-tools

AbouthOCR is a format for representing OCR output, including layout information, character confidences, bounding boxes, and style information. It embeds this information invisibly in standard HTML. By building on standard HTML, it automatically inherits well-defined support for most scripts ... [More] , languages, and common layout options. Furthermore, unlike previous OCR formats, the recognized text and OCR-related information co-exist in the same file and survives editing and manipulation. hOCR markup is independent of the presentation. There is a Public Specification for the hOCR Format. Available ProgramsIncluded command line programs: hocr-check -- check the hOCR file for errors hocr-combine -- combine pages in multiple hOCR files into a single document hocr-eval -- compute number of segmentation and OCR errors hocr-eval-geom -- compute over, under, and mis-segmentations hocr-eval-lines -- compute OCR errors of hOCR output relative to text ground truth hocr-split -- split an hOCR file into individual pages hocr-merge-dc -- merge Dublin Core meta data into the hOCR HTML header See the CommandLine Wiki page for more information. Planned Programshocr-merge-text -- merges groundtruth text into hOCR output (linewise or unaligned) Possible Programshocr-eval-pagenos -- determine accuracy of logical page number labels hocr-generate-cuts -- given an hocr file and a binary image, generate reasonable cuts hocr-generate-xboxes -- given an hocr file containing cuts and a binary image, generate bounding boxes hocr-as-no-html -- remove all HTML markup from an hOCR file hocr-as-absolute-html -- generate HTML with absolute positioning from hOCR output hocr-as-xytable -- generate an XY-table layout from hOCR output hocr-as-simple-html -- generate simple, logically marked up from hOCR output Planned ConvertersPlease let us know if you want to help with these. unz2hocr -- UNLV zone file to hOCR converter icdar2hocr -- convert ICDAR competition format to hOCR xdoc2hocr -- convert XDOC format to hOCR dafs2hocr -- convert DAFS to hOCR djvu2hocr -- convert DjVu XML to hOCR lura2hocr -- convert Luratech Abbyy XML to hOCR [Less]

pecha-pub

PechaPublisherWhat is PechaPublisher?A Publishing ToolFrom its desktop publishing article, Wikipedia has this to say: Desktop publishing combines a personal computer and page layout software to create publication documents on a computer for either large scale publishing or small scale local ... [More] economical multifunction peripheral output and distribution. A Typesetting ToolLikewise, Wikipedia provides the following definition of typesetting: the composition of glyphs into lines to form body matter, headings, captions and other pieces of text to make up a page image, and the printing or transfer of the page image onto paper and other media. PechaPublisher aims to provide a desktop publishing environment combined with typesetting tools for those interested in creating and publishing Tibetan pecha texts. Not a Word Processor!We are not trying to invent nor reinvent word processing for Tibetan. There are many products that do this today, and as unicode becomes increasingly more popular in the Tibetan text creation, digitization, and creation communities, the number of usable products increases. Tell me more!Besides the notes below, be sure to check out the wiki FrontPage for continually updated project content -- everything from development plans to software documentation. For some instant gratification, you can check out our slowly growing ScreenShots page. Where did PechaPublisher come from?PechaPublisher is inspired through the use of PechaMaker as well as feature requests expressed by users, editors, and teachers/lamas. In addition, PechaPublisher derives some of its lineage from the work done on the following projects: AdytumSolutions' pecha-related libraries PyRTF and pyrtf-ng Where is it going?It is anticipated that this software will become the open-source heir to the free (but closed-source) software PechaMaker. Similar to PechaMaker, PechaPublisher has no goals of becoming word processor for Tibetan texts: there are other projects dedicated to this, and with the advent of Tibetan unicode fonts, there is ever decreasing need for Tibetan-specific word processors. [Less]