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🕌 I Built a Tool to Translate Arabic Islamic Texts — Fully Offline

How I built Tarjim, an open-source offline OCR + translation pipeline for scanned Arabic kitab PDFs, using Surya OCR and Argos Translate with smart pivot routing for Indonesian.

13 min read · February 28, 2026

2026 · ocr translation arabic nlp python · machine-learning nlp open-source
🚀 Build Your First AI Agent with Google’s ADK (Part 1)

Concise agentic tutorial using Google's ADK

6 min read · November 24, 2025

2025 · adk agents llm · machine-learning llm agents
Demystifying Visual Transformer (ViT)

Paper Summary of Visual Transformer (ViT)

4 min read · August 19, 2021

2021 · transformer machine-learning image-processing vit · machine-learning