Welcome

Akhar, the bilingual Punjabi-English word processor has been developed for word processing under the Windows environment. It provides a number of features that make the use of Punjabi Language on a computer easy and provides a number of tools that automate and simplify the creation and formatting of documents. Akhar provides most of the features that are normally found in a WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) word processor. Akhar is completely compatible with MS-Word. All the files created in MS-Word can be opened and edited in Akhar and the files developed in Akhar can be modified in MS-Word.

Features

• Onscreen Keyboard with hints for users who are not comfortable with Punjabi typing.
• Facility to customize the keyboard to any of the supported thirty seven Punjabi keyboards.
• Punjabi writing Pad to type in Roman Punjabi and automatically convert it to Gurmukhi.
• Online checking and weeding out of illegal character combinations in Punjabi.
• Bilingual Spell Checker for Punjabi and English with support for additional dictionaries.
• Separate dictionary of all words occurring in Sri Guru Granth Sahib to check for spellings of texts taken from Sri Guru Granth Sahib.
• Built-in English-Punjabi and Punjabi-English dictionaries.
• Text Analysis facility for generating word-frequency lists, character frequency lists, and other statistics from multiple files.
• Concordance utility for context analysis
• Various options for character and paragraph formatting.
• Facility for inserting images and OLE objects in the text.
• Support for tables, bullets and numbering.
• Full print preview and printing, with control over page size, margins and page numbering.

Powerful Facilities:

• Word processing Support for Punjabi and English languages
• Support for more than one hundred twenty Punjabi fonts and thirty seven Punjabi keyboard layouts
• Flexible search and replace facility for both English and Punjabi
• Powerful text analysis utility for performing quantitative analysis of both English and Punjabi texts.
• Transliteration facility to transliterate Gurmukhi script to Devnagri
• Transliteration facility to transliterate Gurmukhi script to Roman
• Transliteration facility to transliterate Roman Punjabi text to Gurmukhi

 Comprehensive tools:

• Font converter for converting more than one hundred twenty commonly used Punjabi fonts.
• Built-in filter for DOC, RTF and HTML file formats.
• Import facility to convert Unicode and ISCII coded files to DOC, RTF, HTML or plain text formats.
• Export facility to convert the DOC, RTF, HTML or plain text formats to Unicode, ISCII or PDF formats.
• Language sensitive sorting utility for English and Punjabi languages
• Built-in Search Engine for Sri Guru Granth Sahib
   

Hardware required:
Pentium PC with minimum 32 MB RAM, VGA monitor, 90 MB free disk space on hard disk, CD-ROM drive
 
Software required:
Windows 95 and above (Win 9x, NT, ME, 2000 or XP) with required printer drivers