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Arabic-Text.com began as a simple web form. Paste garbled text in, get clean Unicode out. But users quickly demanded more. Students wanted to strip tashkeel for readability. Poets wanted to add it back for precision. Transliterators needed to convert between Arabic script and Latin-based Arabizi (e.g., "7abiby" for "حبيبي"). Editors needed to reverse strings that had been mangled by left-to-right software.
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Arabic-Text.com’s is its crown jewel. Unlike older tools that simply inserted random fatha/damma/kasra , this engine uses a bidirectional LSTM model trained on a 10-million-word corpus of fully vowelized classical and modern texts. It achieves 94% accuracy—higher than any open-source alternative. Arabic - Text.com
“My parents speak Arabic at home, but I never learned to type it,” says Samia, a 22-year-old user from Michigan. “Arabic-Text.com lets me write ‘keefak’ in Latin letters, and it converts it into ‘كيفك’ in proper script. Then I can copy it into a text to my grandmother. That’s huge.”
“Calligraphy isn’t decoration in Arabic culture,” notes Youssef Karam, a type designer based in Cairo who consulted on the project. “It’s architecture. The baseline is the ground. The ascenders (alif, lam) are pillars. The descenders (waw, ra) are roots. Arabic-Text.com understands that. It doesn’t just display letters; it respects their gravity.” Arabic-Text
The platform also offers a reverse feature: type Arabic script, get Arabizi. This is popular with linguists studying phonetic shift and with game developers building Arabic-themed mobile games on Latin-keyboard-only engines. In early 2025, Arabic-Text.com launched its commercial API. Pricing is tiered, but a free tier handles up to 1,000 requests per day—a deliberate choice to keep the tool accessible to students and indie developers.
“You open the same news article on three different phones,” says Leila Haddad, the 34-year-old founder of , “and the letters break, the kashida (tatweel) vanishes, and the hamza floats in the wrong place. We’ve accepted a broken digital mirror for too long.” Students wanted to strip tashkeel for readability
Most online Arabic text is rendered in a handful of generic fonts—Tahoma, Arial, or the ubiquitous Noto Naskh Arabic. They are functional, yes, but soulless. Arabic-Text.com’s second act introduced the : a browser-based environment where users can type or paste Arabic text and instantly see it rendered in over 200 typefaces—from the classical Naskh and Thuluth to contemporary geometric Kufic and even pixel-optimized fonts for wearables.
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“We realized we weren’t just building a tool,” says Haddad. “We were building a .” II. Beyond Utility – The Aesthetic Turn What sets Arabic-Text.com apart from command-line scripts or GitHub repositories is its obsession with beauty .