I think that looking for "English" might be a red herring, what you want is
a translation between Persian in the Arabic script to Persian in the Latin
script.

That said, a quick look at Wikipedia indicates that this might not be as
straightforward a task as one might expect:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Romanization_of_Persian&oldid=532605934

Cheers,
Craig

On 23 January 2013 08:30, Han, Yan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hello, All,
> I have a project to deal with Persian materials. I have already uses
> Google Translate API to translate. Now I am looking for an API to
> transliterate /Romanize (NOT Translate) Persian to English (not English to
> Persian). In other words, I have Persian in, and English out.
> There is a Romanization table (Persian romanization table - Library of
> Congress<http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/persian.pdf>
> www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/persian.pdf<
> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/persian.pdf>).
>
> For example, If
>
> كتاب  should output as  Kitāb
> My finding is that existing tools only do the opposite
>
> 1.      Google Transliterate: you enter English, output Persian (Input
> “Bookmark”, output “بوکمارک “, Input “بوکمارک “, output “بوکمارک “)
>
> 2.      OCLC language: the same as Google Transliterate.
>
> 3.      http://mylanguages.org/persian_romanization.php  : works, but no
> API.
>
> Anyone know such API exists?
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Yan
>
>