How to Extract Arabic Text From a Photo

Reading Arabic from an image

Arabic is written right to left and joins its letters, so it needs an OCR tool built for it. ocrX reads Arabic script. Upload your photo to the image to text converter, set the language to Arabic, and extract the text.

Why a dedicated Arabic reader matters

Arabic letters change shape depending on where they sit in a word, and the text runs right to left. A generic reader set to English will mangle all of that. Selecting Arabic tells ocrX to read the script properly, including the direction.

Step by step

1. Upload the photo

Anything with Arabic text: a sign, a document, a screenshot.

2. Choose Arabic

Set the language before extracting.

3. Extract and save

Copy the text, or download a file. When you save to PDF, ocrX uses an Arabic font and lays the text out right to left, so it reads correctly.

Good to know about right-to-left text

When you paste Arabic into another app, that app also needs to support right-to-left text for it to display properly. The characters ocrX gives you are correct; how they appear depends on where you paste them.

Tips

• Use a clear, high-contrast image.
• Set the language to Arabic, not English.
• This also helps with Persian, Urdu, and other Arabic-script languages, which ocrX supports too.

Wrapping up

Set to Arabic, ocrX reads the script the way it is meant to be read and gives you text you can copy, translate, or save.