Al Manhal’s Professional Publishing Services (PPS) offers solutions to improve the outcomes of publications by increasing the availability of publications online to align with the industry standards, as well as analytics to support making informed decisions.

The Al Manhal PPS division provides:

Scanning and Digitization Services

The Image Scanning and Digitization Services are focused on creating world-class electronic copies of textual content from hard copies of different sizes and formats.
The state of the art technical procedures followed ensure production of the highest quality digital files, with optimal levels of brightness, resolution and size. Moreover, the implementation procedures followed are highly efficient, ensuring an agile completion cycle.

Services include :

  • Scanning of hard copies of different sizes and materials
  • Optical Character Recognition, OCR (conversion of image files to formats such as text, Kindle, ePub, HTML, XML from multiple languages) 
  • Professional editing services under the supervision of typesetting and editing specialists


Metadata Creation Service

The Metadata Creation Services are focused on facilitating superlative management of libraries in sync with the highest global standards, thereby ensuring optimal usability of the content by end users. These services typically cover all types of information resources - both print and digital, including ancient Arabic manuscripts.

Services include :

  • Creation and management of MARC21 records in sync with global library standards
  • Cataloging & transliteration to enable pronunciation of records and names in foreign languages
  • Auto indexing of content for ensuring simplified browsing, simply after submission of metadata
  • DOI Registrations

Business Solutions

In addition to directly facilitating world-class electronic publishing and creation of metadata for optimized content usage, our service portfolio also includes solutions to enable achievement of business goals from publishing.

Services include :

  • Marketing support with regards to development of strategy, pricing, online marketing etc.
  • Sales and Distribution support through an extensive network of well developed sales channels
  • Revenue management by way of simplifying payment collections – both offline and online (through payment gateways), calculation of royalties and so on