About

Early Arabic was written as a bare consonantal skeleton: one shape could be read as several letters, and so as several words. Readers managed by context; the text itself could not settle it.

Dots were added to the letters (i‘jām, tanqīṭ) to remove that ambiguity. Not decoration: disambiguation. After dotting, a word said one thing.

ٮ→ب ت ث ن ي

One skeleton, five letters.

That is what this product does. Arabic that passes through a renderer can come out looking fine and saying something else. Tanqeet renders it, checks that what came out is what went in, and hands you the proof.

The name turned out to be literal. The fonts that broke extraction are the ones that draw the dots as separate marks: a dotless base, then a zero-advance dot on top. Every PDF extractor breaks the word at those dots, so فاتورة comes back as ف ات ورة. Tanqeet swaps those fonts for ones that draw each dotted letter as one glyph, and checks that the word survived. The dotting is the thing it fixes.

Tanqeet is a Tarkib product, built in Sharjah.