Hi Ibrahim, Not sure where the issue is.
To investigate, could you please send provide a link to a pdf in Arabic (or send me privately the pdf itself) that we could both try? Thanks Cheers, Didier Le 20/12/2021 à 05:09, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit : > Thanks Didier, > > Unfortunately, I tried your suggestion and still got zero accuracy of OCR of > Arabic letters. I typed a Paragraph of Arabic and printed and then scanned, > but > the outcome was gibbirish, all in latin characters. I typed a paragraph in > English and printed it out, when I scanned, the OCR accuracy was excellent. > So, > ther is some problem with the Arabic recognition. It seems to me that > although > Arabic is listed, the OCR engine is not actually trying to recognize Arabic. > > Cheers, > > Ibrahim > > On 12/17/21 6:48 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: >> Hi Ibrahim, >> >> You do not need to add anything special, the files >> /usr/share/tessdata/Arabic.traineddata being included in the package >> tesseract-data in Slint. >> >> Juts open lios, then in menu select Preferences then Preferences recognition >> and >> select: >> Engine: Tesseract >> Language: Arabic >> >> I don't have a scanner at hand but downloaded this file: >> https://fada.birzeit.edu/bitstream/20.500.11889/6910/1/mkhaldi%20Sahar%20Research.pdf >> >> then I opened it in Lios (menu File then Open). >> >> The file was recognized and the text properly extracted. >> >> Copying a paragraph of the extracted text and pasting it in >> translate.google.fr >> allowed me to read it in French <smile> >> >> Cheers, >> >> Didier >> >> Le 18/12/2021 à 00:10, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit : >>> Hi All, >>> >>> This question is primarily to Didier: >>> >>> How can I add Arabic dictionary to Lios so that I can use my scanner to scan >>> Arabic text? I assume I will also be able to run Arabic.pdf files through >>> Lios >>> and as such I will have access to a lot of Arabic books available on the >>> net. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Ibrahim _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
