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am: Added training data for the Amharic language. #616

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The Amharic language is derived from the Ge'ez script and is spoken by over 60 million people. The dictionary is based off of the Contemporary Amharic Corpus, cited below.

Gezmu, A. M., Seyoum, B. E., Gasser, M., & Nürnberger, A. (2021). Contemporary Amharic corpus: automatically morpho-syntactically tagged Amharic corpus. arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.07241.

Grammar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amharic#Grammar
Full list of punctuation: https://gist.github.com/babraham123/d1b597b9a5b293f332ff5613db0df3dc
Fonts: http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Ethiopic.html

@rkcosmos rkcosmos merged commit e6d9e5a into JaidedAI:master Feb 27, 2022
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Thanks @rkcosmos !
Do you know when an Amharic OCR model might become available?

thuc-moreh pushed a commit to moreh-dev/EasyOCR that referenced this pull request Jul 5, 2023
am: Added training data for the Amharic language.
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