Omar Al-Saleh Manuscripts: Scanned Pages and Transcriptions, 1951-1965

Full-page manuscript PDFs and DOCX transcriptions from the Omar Al-Saleh memoir collection, covering the period from 1951 to 1965. The data was created by U4RASD as part of the NAKBA NLP 2026: Arabic Manuscript Understanding Shared Task and was last updated on April 8, 2026.

Use Cases

• Train or evaluate Arabic OCR models based on the scanned manuscript pages.
• Conduct historical or linguistic analysis based on the expert transcriptions of memoirs.
• Develop models for Arabic manuscript understanding as part of the NAKBA NLP shared task.
• Analyze the structure and content of personal narratives from the mid-20th century.

Strengths

• Data covers a 15-year time range from 1951 to 1965.
• Includes both original scanned images (PDFs) and expert text transcriptions (DOCX).
• Organized by year with files named 1951.pdf through 1965.pdf and corresponding DOCX files.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and total file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

U4RASD, part of the NAKBA NLP 2026 shared task.

Collection Method

Scanned manuscript pages and expert transcriptions.

Time Range

1951-1965

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-08 17:09:51; freshness should be verified.