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Zeyad Abdelfattah

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Software engineer at JabRef who built its OCR feature and searchable PDF text pipeline.

Egypt

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At JabRef, I built an OCR feature that replaced a manual external-tool and relinking workflow with a single “Perform OCR” menu action.

I designed an extensible OcrEngine interface and shipped integrations for OCRmyPDF and Docling. I also built a text-embedding pipeline that writes searchable text back into PDFs.

For my Document Search Engine project, I built a Java search engine from scratch, indexing a 100K-document corpus with a custom inverted index and TF-IDF ranking.

I also developed a Flask API for football match results using scraped data. In the JabRef community, I mentored new contributors and reviewed pull requests.

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Google Summer of Code Contributor

JabRef

May 2026 - Aug 2026 (3 months)

Built JabRef's OCR feature end-to-end, replacing a manual workflow with a single menu action. Designed an extensible OcrEngine interface and shipped two engines, making scanned PDFs full-text searchable.

Java Java FX MVVM PDFBox Lucene OCR Ocrmypdf Docling Git TestNG

Education

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Mansoura University

Bachelor of Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering

2023 -

Grade: 3.39/4.00

Pursuing a Bachelor of Computer Engineering with coursework in Data Structures, Algorithms, Databases, Networking, and Operating Systems. GPA: 3.39/4.00.