If you want to work with MARC records, you can use MARC::Detrans (http://search.cpan.org/~esummers/MARC-Detrans-1.41/)
The trick is you will need a config file for Persian. You also have to decide whether you want to use MARC-8 or UTF-8 before you construct the config file. We’ve done config files for Urdu (I’ll send you off list), but not Persian. I expect you could patch up the Urdu to make Persian without too much bother. It will not be perfect, but probably respectable. If you have a Persian speaker handy to spell check and tweak the results it will do really well.
One problem with the config files for UTF-8 is that with any diacritical marks in the Romanization you may need to account for two different types of characters. For example in Urdu:
<rule>
<roman>h?</roman>
<marc>?</marc>
</rule>
May look like
<rule>
<roman> ? </roman>
<marc>?</marc>
</rule>
But the first h? = 0068 + 0323 (h + combining dot below)
Whereas the second ? = a 1E25 (a single character)
This little snake in the grass really goofed me up for a while, and makes the config file look duplicative when its not.
Anyway if you’re interested in this alternative, I’ll be glad to provide whatever assistance I can.
JJ
-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Craig Franklin
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 8:52 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] : Persian Romanization table
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
>
> ???? should output as Kit?b
> My finding is that existing tools only do the opposite
>
> 1. Google Transliterate: you enter English, output Persian (Input
> “Bookmark”, output “??????? “, Input “??????? “, output “??????? “)
>
> 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
>
>
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