Arabic Chrono OCR

An open-source OCR pipeline that turns scanned Arabic books into chronological, searchable records.

My role: I built the OCR inference API and the ETL pipeline.

What it is

This open-source project uses the dots.ocr vision model to read scanned Arabic books and organize historical records by date.

What I built

I built a FastAPI inference API and an ETL pipeline that turns OCR output into a chronological, searchable database.

Stack

Python, FastAPI, dots.ocr, and ETL scripts.

My role

I built the OCR and data processing pipeline. It feeds records into the Lebanon Aggressions Archive.