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Still want to do it yourself?

We suggest you entrust your manuscript to an expert, if you don’t have the budget, or just want to go through the process yourself, the tools on this page will make your life easier.

These are the same tools we use at Kinor to polish manuscripts and prepare them for print.

Shabbas? Or Shobbos?

Ever wish there was a rule book for transliterating Hebrew? Well, there is, and Kinor wrote it.

First published in 2006, our style guide has more than 150 examples and has been used (or adapted) by countless editors and a number of publishers as well. We have never encountered a transliteration question that was not addressed clearly in our guide.

Free forever. Download The Transliterated Hebrew Stylebook

Better Translations (and Transliterations) in Gemini

AI translations are excellent, even for translating into our idiosyncratic “Yeshivish” style.

Kinor’s Gemini translator is trained on our Transliterated Hebrew Stylebook (above), plus tens of hours of additional training. It has a more nuanced understanding of what terms should be translated (versus transliterated).

You can further refine the output by telling it that the reader is “more familiar” or “less familiar” with Hebrew; it will automatically modify the level of translation. You can also input translated text and instruct it to standardize the transliteration according to its training.

Use this link to access the chat: https://gemini.google.com/gem/1451d77071fa

(You will need to be logged into Gemini for this link to work.)

Always use Gemini’s “Thinking” processor for translation work. Note: Every AI platform starts forgetting its training when the chat gets long. Create a new chat (and retrain it) after every 20-30 outputs.

Near-Perfect Hebrew OCR

Your AI plus our OCR training instructions results in OCR output that is dramatically more accurate than out-of-the-box OCR apps or baseline AI OCR. Besides just looking at the shape of the letter, this OCR actually reads the words and sentences to understand the context of the text, resulting in greatly improved accuracy.

Document: Training Manual: Advanced Hebrew OCR with Contextual Analysis V2

Use a paid subscription to your AI app with the “Pro” or “Thinking” level processor. Feed it this training document before you begin.

Note: Every AI platform starts forgetting its training when the chat gets long. Create a new chat (and retrain it) after every 20-30 outputs.

Production Tools

Page Count Estimator

This spreadsheet helps you estimate the length of your manuscript in printed pages based on the word count. You can customize the page size, line spacing and more for better accuracy.

It includes a words-per-page reference (third tab).

Access the Page Count Estimator

Trim Size Convertor

Reprinting? This calculator identifies how your current page size scales larger or smaller to other standard and custom page sizes.

Access the Trim Size Convertor

Find Great Freelancers

You can find freelance editors, proofreaders and designers at www.frumlance.com.

Ask the Publisher

Need help? There’s no charge to ask Kinor basic questions about preparing your manuscript for print. You will not be added to a mailing list.

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