Arabic handwriting into searchable text

Read a line. Write what you see. Help build Arabic handwriting recognition, starting with Lebanese legal documents.

Contribute How it works

Volunteer contributions. Available tasks depend on rights clearance.

An illustration, not a source document

From an image to words

Synthetic sample. Typeset to explain the task.

حُفظت نسخة من المستند في السجل

A literal transcription

حُفظت نسخة من المستند في السجل

This synthetic sentence contains no private court text and demonstrates no model result.

Where we start

Legal documents, line by line

Projects

Lebanese legal handwritingFirst campaign · Volunteer transcription · Expert reviewLearn what you read, how review works, and which material can be shared.

A document is more useful when you can search it

A scanned page preserves its image. A faithful transcription makes its words searchable and gives handwriting models examples to learn from. Dactelo brings volunteer reading and expert review into that work.

Legal handwriting first

The first campaign focuses on Arabic handwriting in Lebanese legal documents. Only material explicitly cleared for contribution can appear in the workspace. Future campaigns can address other specialist Arabic handwriting.

Human review is part of the work

Volunteer submissions remain provisional until an independent expert reviewer accepts them. A model suggestion is a draft. The image remains the reference.

A volunteer project for Lebanon

Your reading needs a second pair of eyes.

An independent reviewer checks each contribution before it becomes an accepted example. Start with the rules.

Read the guidelines