ISLAMABAD, July 22: The Holy Quran may have been online for years in many languages, but a printer has found a way to copy the original calligraphy and bring the mastery to the masses.

Hassan Rasheed, a printer from Lahore, has spent five years developing a software to capture the original work of the Holy Quran.

With help from an Indian software firm and some British expertise he has managed to turn the ancient script into a unique font that can reproduce an error-free Holy Quran at a fraction of the time it took the masters.

“Calligraphers are a dying breed, but with this software, we can preserve their work and reproduce Holy Qurans in any size or shape preserving the original handwriting style of the masters,” Rasheed said.

His innovation, he said, was probably the first known successful bid to digitize an ancient script that through state-of-the-art printing technology could mass produce an error-free Holy Quran.—AFP