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At the Dawn of Digital Studies on Arabic Script in France (3): Bridging Communities and Building the Future

Introduction The first article of this series explored the general landscape of digital studies on Arabic script in France. The…

Since November 2025, we have been publishing the proceedings of The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 (AI and the Digital…

Introduction The first article of this series explored recent advances in the digital study of Arabic script in France in…

Readers of The Digital Orientalist, you are among the first to know! Today’s post is dedicated to the release of…

It is fascinating to see how Ottoman Turkish texts are transcribed with the help of artificial intelligence (AI)-operated tools, such as Handwritten…

As Dominique Stutzmann points out in an article for the renowned French media outlet L’Histoire in 2017, paleography has undergone…

Since 2022, DISTAM (DIgital STudies Africa, Asia, Middle East) has been a consortium of the French research infrastructure Huma-Num. It…

In previous years I have posted some interviews with different projects to trace the history of the Syriac Digital Humanities.…

While others have discussed the possibilities in utilizing Transkribus and other HTR resources in research, I want to briefly discuss…

Learn about Kraken’s segmentation model and the process of training our own custom segmentation models for layout analysis tasks.