Multilingual system using Internet imaging

Tadashi Mori; Yoshitsugu Hata; Ryouji Iida; Hirotsugu Kakugawa; Tadashi Ae; Hisae Murakami

doi:10.1117/12.411908

27 December 2000 Multilingual system using Internet imaging

Tadashi Mori, Yoshitsugu Hata, Ryouji Iida, Hirotsugu Kakugawa, Tadashi Ae, Hisae Murakami

Proceedings Volume 4311, Internet Imaging II; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.411908
Event: Photonics West 2001 - Electronic Imaging, 2001, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

In these years, multilingual system becomes important, but, most computer environment cannot handle all languages (scripts) in ths world. This paper presents a multilingual imaging system on the Internet. In this system, characters are converted into bitmaps, and therefore, we can display multilingual text on WWW browsers. In order to convert multilingual plain text into bitmap images, we have developed software named ctext2pgm and VFlib. VFlib is a software component to rasterize fonts in various file formats, and ctext2pgm generates bitmap image files form multilingual plain texts. Ctext2pgm is an application program of VFlib, and it supports about 30 languages. We also introduce a language education system for various languages. This is an example of the multilingual system using internet imaging.

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Tadashi Mori, Yoshitsugu Hata, Ryouji Iida, Hirotsugu Kakugawa, Tadashi Ae, and Hisae Murakami "Multilingual system using Internet imaging", Proc. SPIE 4311, Internet Imaging II, (27 December 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.411908

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