Open Source OCR for Arabic [closed]

Question

I'm looking for an OCR library or any samples that I could use it to read Arabic letters from an image.i googled a lot and didn't find any thing..please help thanks in advance.

Answer 1

TesseractOCR is the probably the best open source OCR engine out there and is very flexible as to what it can recognize. It allows for training with custom data, so essentially any language is possible as long as your willing to put in the work (i.e. create the training set).

There are tools provided by tesseract (with a gui interface) that can help create the data set where you specify the bounding box of characters and the corresponding transcription.

EDIT: Noticed from another post (linked above) that a training set on Arabic has already been created for version 3.01. You'd just need to plug in the Arabic data and your problem is solved :).

Answer 2

You may try the Abbyy Fine Reader, they may have the language you are looking for.