Yai4Ottoman: AI tools for the Ottoman language

Digitize, translate, and explore historical content.

Yai4Ottoman enables libraries, researchers, and students to process Ottoman Turkish manuscripts with OCR, translation, and archiving tools powered by AI. A scanned folio goes in; a readable, translatable, searchable record comes out, with every stage open to correction by someone who knows the material.

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How Yai4Ottoman processes historical Ottoman content, end to end.

What Yai4Ottoman does

Five services, applied to a scanned Ottoman document.

Ottoman OCR

Extracts Ottoman Turkish from scanned documents using AI-powered OCR.

Translation

Accurately translates Ottoman into English or Arabic, with historical context.

Bookmarking

Research-friendly bookmarks on the key sections of a manuscript.

Manual editing

Manually refine OCR or translation output for accuracy.

Insights

Extracts metadata, named entities and structured content for indexing.

Seamless Ottoman digitization

Yai4Ottoman enables historians and institutions to digitize Ottoman manuscripts through an AI-powered pipeline that includes OCR, translation, and intelligent structuring — making historical texts accessible and research-ready.

The Yai4Ottoman processing pipeline, shown as a row of sequential stages a document passes through. — Each stage of a document's pipeline, in sequence.

Expert editing environment

The smart editor in Yai4Ottoman allows users to review, edit, and validate Ottoman OCR output, translations, and contextual enrichments — ensuring high-quality digital preservation.

The Yai4Ottoman editor: the scanned folio rendered on the left, the extracted Ottoman text on the right, with a toggle between extracted and translated text and Editor and Preview tabs. — The source folio and the extracted text side by side, with a toggle between extracted and translated text, and an editor and preview for each.

Archival navigation & access

An intuitive digital archive lets users search, bookmark, and explore Ottoman texts in a structured format, supporting researchers and institutions with powerful search and content management tools.

The Yai4Ottoman digital archive: a searchable list of digitized Ottoman documents, each with its date, author, publication details and a generated English summary of the report's contents. — The digital archive. Full-text search across the collection, with a generated summary on each record — here, nineteenth-century Ottoman administrative reports.

Put your own collection through it

Send a representative sample of your Ottoman material and we will run it through Yai4Ottoman and return the output, with the error rates measured on your manuscripts rather than ours.

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