The scholarly AI for Arabic manuscripts

AI Paleography for Arabic Manuscripts

Upload Arabic manuscript images or PDFs and receive:

  • Diplomatic transcription
  • Script & approximate dating
  • Morphology & iʿrāb
  • Glossary
  • Scholarly translation
  • CrossRef bibliography
  • AMREMM catalog record

— all in minutes.

Read what history wrote — with the whole apparatus.

Example analysis

See what Arabist produces

One page, the full scholarly apparatus. Every tab shows a real deliverable of a Scholar Mode report.

An illustrative Arabic manuscript page with naskh script and marginalia
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
الحمدُ للهِ ربِّ العالمين، والصلاةُ والسلامُ على أشرفِ الأنبياءِ والمرسلين،
سيِّدنا محمَّدٍ وعلى آله وصحبِه أجمعين. أمَّا بعدُ:
فصلٌ في بيانِ حقيقةِ العلمِ
  • Arabic Manuscripts
  • AI Paleography
  • Private Processing
  • Export PDF
  • Citation Ready
  • Research Grade

Choose your mode

Two ways to work with a manuscript

Every account starts with free daily pages. Upgrade or buy credits when you need volume.

Scholar Mode

€4.90 / page

1 free page daily

  • Complete scholarly pipeline
  • Script identification
  • Dating estimation
  • Morphology & iʿrāb
  • Glossary
  • Translation
  • Bibliography
  • Catalog record

Highest accuracy

Quick Mode

€0.75 / page

5 free pages daily

  • Fast transcription
  • Translation
  • Glossary

Optimized for rapid reading

Who Arabist is for

Built for the manuscript community

Researchers

Read and analyse manuscripts faster, with the full apparatus at hand.

Libraries & Archives

Generate standardized AMREMM-compatible catalog records at scale.

Museums

Document manuscript collections with consistent scholarly metadata.

Collectors

Understand private manuscript holdings with expert-grade analysis.

How it works

From folio to scholarly report

  1. 01

    Upload manuscript

    Drag images or a PDF — up to 50 pages.

  2. 02

    AI analysis

    Transcription, morphology, glossary, translation, bibliography.

  3. 03

    Review every result

    Structured, editable output you can verify page by page.

  4. 04

    Export or cite

    Download PDF/JSON, or lift the AMREMM catalog record.

Features

A full scholarly apparatus, page by page

Diplomatic transcription

Faithful right-to-left transcription of the hand as written.

Script identification

Naskh, maghribī, thuluth, nastaʿlīq and related hands.

Dating estimation

Approximate century and cultural context from paleographic cues.

Morphological analysis

Root, pattern and part-of-speech for every notable form.

iʿrāb analysis

Case, mood and syntactic function across the passage.

Glossary

Definitions of scholarly and technical vocabulary in context.

Translation

Fluent scholarly translation into 18+ target languages.

Bibliography

CrossRef references linked to related scholarship.

AMREMM catalog record

Structured cataloging fit for library and archive workflows.

Export PDF

Print-ready reports for review, sharing or archiving.

Export JSON

Structured data for pipelines, databases and DH projects.

Project history

Every report saved to your account, ready to revisit.

FAQ

Questions from scholars and institutions