ISLAMABAD – The first-ever Urdu software ‘Harf Kaar’ with an advancedprogramme of detecting and correcting grammatical errors and anomalies inUrdu diction and proof†will be launched in the first week of August.
This software is the result of joint efforts by a noted poet and writer,Akhtar Raza Saleemi and eminent software programmer Saeed Raza Khan.
“The 95pc of the software programme has been completed and the rest will becompleted within few days. The software will be formally launched by thefirst week of August in a ceremony,” said Akhtar Raza Saleemi.
The software has been designed considering the global digital needs of Urduwriters and poets and this programme will auto-correct all the errors inUrdu diction, proof, and expression at one click, Raza added.
“The software will point out, correct Urdu diction and proof errors as wellas pave the way for uniform, error-free, and up-to-date Urdu expressions.We have carried out so far, 500 successful trials of this software,” saidAkhtar Raza.
It took his team more than a year to design and prepare this software andin its preparation, almost all the major old and new dictionaries, booksreference and research work on Urdu have been consulted.
Regarding correction in Urdu diction, the designers and researchersí teamhas taken guidance from National Language Promotion Department (NLPD)seminar held in 1985 on Urdu diction, grammar, and all its related fieldsand the recommendations of Committee on Urdu constituted in India in1973-74.
Saleemi said his team enthusiastically worked day and night for producingan authentic and quality modern software of Urdu and hoped `Harf Kaarí willbe consulted, used and downloaded by all those who wanted to composeessays, poems, articles or stories etc incorrect, error-free Urdu.
Software programmer, Saeed Raza said the programme has been prepared inìdot netî and no third party tool has been used in it. The software is inone portable form and there is no need to even install it.
“Harf Kaar is quite small in size and can be run on any computer. UrduDiction is spread in such a huge form that the software programme will bequite helpful in resolving issues of diction, proof errors etc,” said RazaSaeed.
Saleemi was of the view that besides literary and other forms of Urdugenre, academically too the software is of utmost importance.