Announcing Qari OCR 0.2.2.1 - Major Advancements in Arabic Text Recognition

[Omar Najar]

Dear All, 

I'm incredibly proud to be the founder of the NAMAA community. What started as my vision has grown into a thriving collective of passionate individuals dedicated to advancing Arabic NLP technologies.

Through NAMAA, we've been consistently publishing high-quality resources on Hugging Face [https://huggingface.co/NAMAA-Space], making ArabicNLP tools more accessible to researchers and developers worldwide. Our commitment to open source and knowledge sharing continues to drive innovation in this critical field.

Today, I'm excited to announce our latest achievement: Qari-OCR-Arabic-0.2.2.1-VL-2B-Instruct!

✓ Advanced diacritics support 

✓ Multi-font compatibility 

✓ Flexible layout handling

The performance improvements are remarkable:

• 71% reduction in Word Error Rate compared to Tesseract
• 328% improvement in BLEU score compared to EasyOCR
• Overall character accuracy of 94.1%

Check our full post here : https://www.linkedin.com/posts/namaa-community_ocr-activity-7313590986008346625-K6Ok?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAChp0cYBTrzMocuvjgI_4ZoZdyVDnmyHYJA

This is just one more step in our journey to transform Arabic language technology. The NAMAA community continues to grow and innovate under my leadership, and I'm proud to drive this important work forward.

Best,

Omer,