| User | Thread poster: Rebecca_M Support for Arabic OCR in Scanned Documents |
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Rebecca_M
United Kingdom
Local time: 03:47
Arabic to English
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Hi,
does anyone know any good software for converting scanned Arabic text documents into .doc or .pdf files for use with CAT tools? I have been successful in doing this for scanned English documents but when I try for Arabic the characters are converted into miscellaneous symbols. The only support I have found online suggests downloading Arabic language add-ons, however, I have been unable to find language add-ons for any of the non-Arabic specific software. I am therefore looking for software specifically designed for converting scanned Arabic text documents.
Please help!
Many Thanks,
Becs
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Roberto Lipani 
Italy
Local time: 04:47
 Member (May 2012)
Italian to English
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| | OCR support for Arabic language | Jul 25, 2010 |
Hello,
maybe I can help you. One of the softwares I use for ocr is free ocr (you can download it from the internet and it's a freeware softare).
With regard to the Arabic language, I'm not sure it is supported (actually the software allows to select the main language from a list during installation).
I tried and typed "free ocr for Arabic language" in google and I think there are many softwares that can do the job (you can choose the one which best suits your needs)
The only thing I must add is that these softwares help you converting a document into word format, but it is necessary to check the right spelling of the words sometimes (I assume this depends on the quality of the scanned document)
Hope this will help you
Regards
Roberto
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TargamaT
Syria
Local time: 05:47
 Member (2010)
English to Arabic
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Hello,
I tried to OCR Arabic texts many times without more than 70 % success in the best case (the software cost was almost 2500 $)... Then I gave-up and sent my PDFs to a type-writer who transformed them quickly and properly to word…
I did thousands of pages in this way as the OCRed pages need to be revised any way and revision cost was almost the same as writing!
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Rebecca_M
United Kingdom
Local time: 03:47
Arabic to English
TOPIC STARTER | | Links not always what they seem | Jul 26, 2010 |
Dear Roberto,
thankyou for your suggestion. I have tried the Google search but when you follow the links the software is not often as advertised in the Google list and there is no confirmation that they support Arabic. Please could you tell me which software you are using and if it is compatible with MAC so I can check it out.
Thanks,
Rebecca
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Ahmed Maher
Egypt
Local time: 04:47
Member (2010)
English to Arabic
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| | Readiris Pro 12 | Jul 26, 2010 |
Hi Becs,
You can try Readiris Pro 12 from Winsoft International. Their products that support Middle Eastern languages like Indesign ME and Photoshop ME is great, but I have not tried to use their Readiris Pro 12 that support Arabic as most of my translation is from English to Arabic.
Regards,
Ahmed Maher
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TargamaT
Syria
Local time: 05:47
Member (2010)
English to Arabic
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Rebecca_M
United Kingdom
Local time: 03:47
Arabic to English
TOPIC STARTER | | Help and Suggestions | Jul 27, 2010 |
Shame there isnt any freeware but thanks everyone for all your help!
Becs
[Edited at 2010-07-27 10:11 GMT]
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ahmadwadan.com
Kuwait
Local time: 05:47
 Member (2005)
English to Arabic
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| | I need Arabic OCR software too | Feb 13 |
I am seeking for respectable Arabic OCR software too. I already have (Readiris Pro 11) but is a big failure with Arabic.
Regards
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MuhammadN
Kuwait
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try Abbyy. Arabic OCR is quite new but I was satisfied with the result
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Hugo Dani
Argentina
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Kim Nabi
South Korea
| | Arabic OCR in FineReader | May 17 |
Hello, I tried ABBYY FineReader with European languages and Korean. And it was fantastic. Really good. That's why I recommended it to my friend who had to recognize texts in Arabic (he is a student and his major is Arabic). He said that it isn't yet perfect (as good as with texts in English and so on), but it is one of the best solutions in the market. He tried some other softwares (I don't remember actually the companies, there were something connected with flowers) and it wasn't good at all, too many mistakes. So now he uses FineReader and he thinks that it is no bad. Anyway it saves the time.
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ahmadwadan.com
Kuwait
Local time: 05:47
Member (2005)
English to Arabic
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| | Useless fir Arabic | May 17 |
Based on my test I can say that it is useless for Arabic.
Regards
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