Arabic Language Support

[Greg M]

Does Tesseract OCR provide support for the Arabic language?

If not, has anyone successfuly created a training set for the Arabic
language?

[Sven Pedersen]

Tesseract does not yet work well for connected scripts, see this article:
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/wiki/TrainingTesseract

However, it has been suggested that it can be trained by using
character groups, such as words.
Arabic OCR is widely regarded as a hard problem, and is presently
being approached with Hidden Markov Models or with brute force
learning of large data sets. The commercial software can be quite
expensive.

Someone was working on it a while back...
http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr/browse_thread/thread/ddd079f5a0669397/d16042e4bb725d56?lnk=gst&q=arabic#d16042e4bb725d56

[Vic49]

You can check out www.novodynamics.com as they have the best Arabic
OCR capability

On Oct 28, 3:46 pm, Sven Pedersen <sven.peder...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tesseract does not yet work well for connected scripts, see this article:http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/wiki/TrainingTesseract
>
> However, it has been suggested that it can be trained by using

> character groups, such as words.ArabicOCRis widely regarded as a hard problem, and is presently

> being approached with Hidden Markov Models or with brute force
> learning of large data sets. The commercial software can be quite
> expensive.
>

> Someone was working on it a while back...http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr/browse_thread/thread/ddd...
>
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Greg M <gregory.james.mar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Does TesseractOCRprovide support for theArabiclanguage?

[Mohamed Yousssef]

You might find and answer here

https://arabicocr.wordpress.com/