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Arabic Normalizer

Normalises Arabic text — alef variants, teh marbuta, alef maqsura, diacritic removal, tatweel stripping and presentation-form folding.

POST /v1/text/arabic-normalize $0.005 per call

Specification

Endpoint

POST /v1/text/arabic-normalize

Price

$0.005 per call · tier basic_data

Payment

x402 on X Layer (chain 196) · settled in USDG or USDT0 · schemes exact, aggr_deferred

Data source

Deterministic local computation on caller-supplied text

Timeout

15 seconds

Max request

1 MB

Version

1.0.0

Calling it

The first call returns a 402 with the payment challenge. Retry with a signed authorisation in the X-PAYMENT header — see the payment guide for the exact shape.

curl -i -X POST "https://api.dana-edu.pp.ua/v1/text/arabic-normalize" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{ ... }'

Response

Real output, captured by running this endpoint at build time — not written by hand. Volatile fields such as timestamps are elided. Captured 2026-07-30.

{
  "text": "الانبار مدينة",
  "changed": true,
  "substitutions": [
    {
      "rule": "removed Arabic diacritics (harakat)",
      "occurrences": 9
    },
    {
      "rule": "removed tatweel U+0640",
      "occurrences": 1
    },
    {
      "rule": "unified alef variants → ا",
      "occurrences": 1
    }
  ],
  "original_length": 24,
  "normalised_length": 13
}

Every response is wrapped in the same envelope: data plus warnings, sources, confidence, informational_only and a measured processing_ms. See the envelope reference.

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