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abduedris313-max/harmony-ajam-script

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natural language processing

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software
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The Ajami scripture app for the traditional Ethiopian Sufi scripts # Harmony Ajam Script > Part of the **Harmony Projects** series. Digital preservation, AI OCR transcription, and interactive catalog for historical Ethiopian Sufi Ajam manuscripts (*Menzuma*, *Zikr*, *Qasida*, *Tawassul*). --- ## 🌟 Overview In the Ethiopian Sufi community, **Ajam** (also known as *Ajami*) is a centuries-old writing system that transcribes native Ethiopian languages — including Amharic, Afaan Oromo, Harari, Silte, Argobba, and Afar — into adapted Arabic script with specialized localized diacritics. **Harmony Ajam Script** is a production-grade web application created to digitize, decipher, and preserve these rare historical manuscripts, providing scholars, researchers, and reciters with AI-powered OCR, bidirectional transliteration, vocal chant audio sync, and community preservation tools. --- ## ✨ Key Features 1. **Digital Manuscript Archive**: - High-resolution scans and side-by-side verse transcriptions in Ajam script, Ethiopic (Ge'ez), and English. - Filter by Ethiopian region (*Wollo, Harar, Bale, Silte, Jimma, Raya*) and category (*Menzuma, Zikr, Tawassul, Mawlid, Qasida*). - Synchronized line-by-line vocal chant audio player. 2. **AI Manuscript Scanner & OCR (Gemini 2.5 Vision Engine)**: - Photograph or upload physical manuscript pages to extract raw Ajam script. - Auto-translate into Ethiopic & English, detect regional dialect, poetic meter (*Bahre*), and spiritual commentary. 3. **Interactive Ajam Transcriber & Virtual Keyboard**: - Real-time bidirectional conversion from Ethiopic/Latin phonetics into authentic Ajam script. - Touch-optimized on-screen Ajam virtual keyboard with localized three-dot diacritic keys (`پ`, `چ`, `ژ`, `گ`, `ڤ`, `ݧ`, `ڞ`). 4. **Ajam Literacy & History Primer**: - Educational modules teaching scribal rules, vowel order mapping, and historical context. - Interactive knowledge check quiz cards. 5. **Community Workbench & Vocal Recorder**: - Submit new manuscript transcriptions to the Firestore database. - I …