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Good luck with that. Various programmer types with an interest in Tibetan texts have been trying to develope OCR software for Tibetan for more than a
decade now. I don't think they have got there yet. The Tibetan books that are of interest to them are all wood block prints, carved by hand. There are
numerous oddities involved in that process that are very difficult to deal with from the viewpoint of "optical recognition" by computer.
On the word processing end, there has been much more progress, so that wood block texts are now being entered into the Tibetan word processing
programs by teams of monks and others, word by word. Needless to say, it is a huge undertaking.
The mantras of Buddhism, written in Tibetan script, derive from Sanskrit originals. They are simply transliterations of Sanskrit originals in most
cases or derived from typical Sanskrit formulae. If you can transliterate back to the original Sanskrit, you could then look up the various words in
Sanskrit dictionaries.
PA DME is the Tibetan way of rendering the Sanskrit
PADME, which means "LOTUS" in English.
Mantras are made up of single letters or syllables in combination with words like "lotus" or "shunyata".
This is a big topic that leads into another world of mentation, outside the one we are familiar with in the West.
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