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Name Transliteration

Transliterates personal names between Arabic or Kurdish script and Latin, offering ranked variants for common ambiguous forms.

POST /v1/text/name-transliterate $0.01 per call

Specification

Endpoint

POST /v1/text/name-transliterate

Price

$0.01 per call · tier standard_data

Payment

x402 on X Layer (chain 196) · settled in USDG or USDT0 · scheme exact

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/name-transliterate" \
  -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.

{
  "input": "محمد خضر",
  "primary": "Mhmd Khdr",
  "variants": [
    "Mhmd Khdr",
    "Mhmd Xdr"
  ],
  "per_word": [
    {
      "word": "محمد",
      "variants": [
        "mhmd"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "خضر",
      "variants": [
        "khdr",
        "xdr"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "note": "Arabic script omits short vowels, so transliteration cannot recover them — 'Mhmd' cannot be resolved to 'Mohammed' versus 'Muhammad' from the script alone. Compare against a known passport or official spelling where one exists."
}

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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