Scanned books

I have been busy lately trying to work on improving scanned images from dictionaries -- Shorto Mon Dictionary and Khmer dictionary.

Shorto, H L: MA, Lecturer in Mon 1952-64
Reader in the Languages and Literatures of South East Asia 1964-71
Professor of Mon Khmer Studies 1971-84



South-east Asian languages present many interesting and challenging programming problems. It's fun to work with these languages. There are a lot of research to be done for the languages of Burma. If you are in Burma and a computer scientist, don't get despaired. There are a lot to be done and we lack human resources for now because of brain drains for many reasons. I don't want to go into details here.


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