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متصفح المخطوطات · Manuscript Browser
A free Windows program by Dr. Mohammed Omar al-Kaf for reading, foliating (1a, 1b), collating and annotating manuscript images, with PDF and Word export.
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Research Tools
Software and databases that manuscript researchers use to identify, read, compare and cite copies.
Reading and working with manuscript images
Handwritten-text recognition (HTR/OCR)
eScriptorium
An open-source platform for transcribing, annotating and training recognition models on manuscripts and historical documents, with support for right-to-left scripts such as Arabic.
Visit tool ↗Kraken
An open-source text-recognition engine built for non-Latin scripts and right-to-left layouts; it powers eScriptorium.
Visit tool ↗Transkribus
A web platform for automatic transcription of handwritten documents and for training custom models from the researcher's own transcribed samples.
Visit tool ↗Catalogues & manuscript databases
Fihrist
A union catalogue of Islamic manuscripts held in UK collections, with detailed descriptions and multi-criteria search.
Visit tool ↗Text corpora
OpenITI
A machine-readable corpus of premodern Arabic-script texts, used for text search, analysis and data-driven research.
Visit tool ↗Reference management
Zotero
A free, open-source reference manager for collecting, organising and citing sources, with right-to-left text support and many citation styles.
Visit tool ↗This list keeps growing. Know a useful tool? Write to us. almufahris@gmail.com
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