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.

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
- 01
Upload manuscript
Drag images or a PDF — up to 50 pages.
- 02
AI analysis
Transcription, morphology, glossary, translation, bibliography.
- 03
Review every result
Structured, editable output you can verify page by page.
- 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.
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