The Secretary General of the King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Qur'an, Dr. Muhammad ibn Salim ibn Shadid Al-'Aufi, announced that a unique software has been produced for researchers, students, and others, called: The Madinah Qur'an for Computer Publishing.

The Secretary General explained that the new software: The Madinah Quran for Computer Publishing, is the fruit of more than three years of diligent work, under the supervision of the Computer and academic departments of the Complex, in cooperation with Harf Information Technology. The project was initiated on a directive from the Minister for Islamic Affairs, Endowments, Dawa, and Guidance, the General Supervisor of the Complex, Sheikh Salih bin Abdul Aziz Al Al-Sheikh, to benefit the work of the Complex from new technologies and computer software, and to utilize them in the service of the Qur'an and its sciences and also the purified Prophetic Sunnah.

Dr. Al-'Aufi reviewed the advantages of the new software, which include the option of entering and inserting Qur'anic verses directly into text design and editing programs, such as MS-Word, Photoshop, and others, in a font that matches the handwritten calligraphic style used to write The Madinah Qur'an. This is an important feature that is not available in many other similar programs.

Dr. Al-'Aufi added that some other unique advantages of the program are the speed and accuracy of the search results from the whole Qur'an, its ease of use even by non-specialists, and its simple elegant design. There are also many other options that facilitate its use, such as the option to control the font size and color, to control where references for quoted verses are inserted, and the ability to enclose the Qur'anic text in decorative brackets, and many other useful features.

The software can be used to connect to the website of the Complex for continual updates and improvements, and also to avoid any technical problems or errors that may appear in the future.

There is a version of the program that operates on Mac operating systems, which includes most of the features available on the Windows version, as few programs offer this service for Mac computers.