For 10 years, we shot 822,161 book spreads (1.64M pages) and spent 10,000+ hours cropping by hand.
That work became PageImprover: an open, local tool/model to turn two-page book photos into clean pages.
What worked, what failed, and what didn't transfer:
https://t.co/485sfizMbD
A History of #Urdu Literature
Author: Ram Babu Saksena
Year: 1940
Takreekh-i #Adab Urdu
Translator: Mirza Muhammad Askari
Year: 1937
https://t.co/CO7DFVXy0P
https://t.co/8a0Uxd2I4s
via @internetarchive
Bahar-e-Danish (Spring of Knowledge)
Author: Munshi Inayatullah
Year: 1908
#Persian collection of romantic tales adapted from earlier Indian sources.
Fully Annotated: 🤯
https://t.co/Oaq6GyxQxf via @internetarchive
Fasana-e-Hairat - Amar Ayyaar Biography
Author: Mirza Hairat Dehlvi
Amar #Ayyaar (usually mispronounced as Umroo Ayyaar) Notorious #Trickster and Master of Disguise. The most artful & cunning character in #Urdu Literature.
#Zambeel
https://t.co/Y65YC7TWRP via @internetarchive
Bahr-ul-Fasaahat is one of the most authentic and most comprehensive books written in #Urdu on #prosody, #rhetoric and #poetics.
Author: Najmul Ghani Khan Rampuri
Publisher: Nawal Kishore Press
Year: 1927
https://t.co/2dMO9T429g via @internetarchive
Muraqqa-i-Chughtai | Divan-i #Ghalib
Muraqqa-i-Chughtai was a sumptuously illustrated edition of Ghalib's Urdu poetry. It is regarded as the most significant work of Chughtai's career.
Available on Archive: https://t.co/k9gahaC7Oi
#Ghalibiyat#Chughtai