Open source
Built in the open, shared as we learn
Sutur turns classic Arabic books into manga with AI. We write down what worked and what failed, our mistakes included, so anyone can copy it, fix it or do it better.
MIT
The code is free to copy and change
CC BY 4.0
The books are free to reuse with credit
Every fault
Written down here, with the fix
Why Sutur has a Bedtime shelf, and where it goes next
The first Sutur books were made for children's questions. The Bedtime shelf gives them a place: quiet books for the last ten minutes of the day.
Behind the scenes2 min read
How we built our first 117 books, 3,114 pages, and the code that made them
What Sutur has made so far, in numbers, and the open-source pipeline behind it: how a book is made, what it took in machine time, and how to run it yourself.
Behind the scenes5 min read
Why every volume of the Nights is rated 18+
How we handle the adult parts of the Nights: what is shown, what is covered, how the rating works on the site, and why it is not lower.
Age ratings2 min read
What went wrong drawing One Thousand and One Nights, and what we changed
The faults our AI pipeline made across 13 volumes of the Nights, how we caught them, and a checklist so you can avoid them.
Behind the scenes3 min read
How Sutur turns a book into a manga volume, step by step
The whole pipeline in plain words: from a Hindawi text to a published volume, with the models, the hardware and the checks.
Behind the scenes3 min read