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Upload an Arabic EPUB and get the first fifteen pages back in English. The first thing this direction has to get right is sentence boundaries — because classical Arabic prose joins clauses where English would stop.
The first 15 pages of text are sent to our server to be translated. The file itself stays on your device.
Arabic narration links clause to clause with و, and a paragraph can run for half a page without a full stop. English will not carry that; a faithful translation has to decide where sentences end, repeatedly, and a translator that makes that call inconsistently produces prose that alternates between breathless and clipped for no reason the reader can see.
Names are the other recurring decision. Arabic names carry structure — the definite article fused to the name, ibn and bint linking generations, a kunya naming someone as the parent of their child. Romanising them is not one problem but a series of small ones, and the only thing that matters over a whole book is that the same person is romanised the same way each time.
Reading the entire book first is what produces that consistency: names, recurring terms, tone and register go into a guide before a word is translated.
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Names, kunyas and recurring terms are collected first, so one person keeps one romanisation.
About 4,500 words as a complete EPUB, set left-to-right the way an English book should be.
Dialect is harder than MSA. Narration in Modern Standard Arabic translates reliably. Dialogue written in Egyptian, Levantine or Gulf dialect is a different language in practice, and the result there is more approximate.
Rhythm does not cross. Arabic prose gets a great deal from root patterns and sound — assonance that is structural rather than decorative. No translation carries that, and this one does not pretend to.
Fifteen pages, not the book. About 4,500 words.
The text is sent to a server and discarded when the job finishes.
Yes — that is a direct consequence of reading the whole book before translating. Names, including kunyas and the ibn/bint chains, are recorded once, so the same person is not spelled two ways across a chapter break.
Yes. Adult Arabic prose is normally published without tashkeel, and that is what it expects to read. Text that does carry diacritics is read fine too.
They are broken where English needs a break, and the point is that the decision is made once as part of the register set from the whole book — not freshly in each paragraph, which is what makes a machine translation lurch.
About 4,500 words, roughly fifteen pages, five books a day.
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The app translates the entire book and can show the English beside the Arabic, which keeps the original in reach wherever the English has to simplify.
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