Zirak AI · Peshawar

Intelligence in your mother tongue.

Zirak Technologies builds machines that read, write, listen, speak, and understand low-resource languages of South Asia and the Middle East — Pashto, Dari, Urdu, Persian, and Arabic — with the same care the industry gives to English.

1MPsOCR training images
10KPublic OCR benchmark
11Published papers
2024Founded in Peshawar

01 — Mission

No language left behind.

Cutting-edge models still fail where the script is cursive, the data is scarce, and the speakers number in the tens of millions. Zirak AI closes that gap with optical character recognition, speech, and language systems designed around local linguistic needs — preserving diversity while opening the digital world.

Word cloud of Pashto text in blue and green
Pashto, seen as data

02 — Capabilities

Five senses for language.

Read

See the script

OCR for printed and handwritten Pashto, Urdu, and Latin text, from a single line to a full document.

Write

Shape the words

Segmentation, spelling, part-of-speech, and translation models that respect how these languages are actually written.

Listen

Hear the voice

Pashto speech-to-text for transcription, dictation, and voice interfaces, including native accents.

Speak

Answer aloud

Text-to-speech tuned for clarity, tone, and regional Pashto dialects, ready for apps and platforms.

Understand

Know the meaning

Monolingual Pashto BERT, offensive-language detection, and benchmarks the research community can build on.

Illustration of a laptop screen reading NLP, surrounded by gears

NLPashto

An open toolkit for spelling, segmentation, tagging, and moderation in a language spoken by over 50 million people.

03 — Flagship

PsOCR, the first million-image Pashto benchmark.

Dataset access
PsOCR sample with Pashto words outlined for recognition
Word, line, and document annotations

One million synthetic images, a thousand font families, and a public 10,000-image test set. We used it to measure how today’s large multimodal models — Gemini, GPT-4o, Claude, Grok, Qwen, and others — actually read Pashto.

Contact

Build with us.

Governments, universities, and product teams use Zirak AI when the language on the page is not English.

contact@zirak.ai