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Digital library

Istidlal Library

A broad source corpus that combines serious reading tools with modern multilingual retrieval.

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status
in progress
category
Digital library
stack
PostgreSQL · OCR · embeddings · hybrid search · AI retrieval

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The problem

Important Arabic and Urdu texts remain distributed across inconsistent scans, formats, and search interfaces, limiting both discovery and structured research.

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The system

Istidlal Library is being built as a unified corpus with normalized text, OCR and ingestion pipelines, traditional reading tools, and search that combines lexical and semantic signals.

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What the system handles

  • Unified Arabic and Urdu source corpus
  • OCR, normalization, and ingestion pipelines
  • Hybrid and multilingual search
  • AI-assisted discovery grounded in original texts

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Current build status.

In active developmentDesigned for a large multilingual corpus