Free Arabic OCR — العربية PDF to Text
Free Arabic OCR for PDF and images. Preserves right-to-left layout, supports Arabic script, diacritics. Browser-based, no upload. Perfect for Quran,
About Arabic OCR
العربية OCR — Arabic OCR extracts right-to-left (RTL) Arabic text from scanned PDFs and images, preserving proper letter-joining, diacritics (تشكيل), and the Arabic script used by Arabic, Urdu (partially), Persian (فارسی), and Pashto. Our engine handles the cursive nature of Arabic — where each letter has initial, medial, final, and isolated forms — along with the Hamza (ء), Alef variants (ا أ إ آ), and Tanween endings (ً ٍ ٌ).
نحن نستخدم نموذج Tesseract Arabic LSTM المدرّب على الوثائق الحكومية العربية، والصحف (الشرق الأوسط، الأهرام)، والكتب المدرسية. كل شيء يعمل في متصفحك — لا يتم رفع أي ملف — مما يحمي المستندات الحساسة مثل جوازات السفر، وبطاقات الهوية الوطنية، والعقود القانونية.
How We Compare
Compared to desktop alternatives like Adobe Acrobat Pro (starting at $19.99/month), Smallpdf ($12/month for unlimited), or iLovePDF ($9/month Premium), PDF AI Tools delivers comparable quality at $0 for the core feature set. We skip the subscription friction by processing most operations directly in your browser with WebAssembly — no server infrastructure costs to pass on to users. Our AI features (summarization, chat, OCR) use a pay-as-you-go backend that keeps your total cost well under $5/month even for power users.
How to Use Free Arabic OCR — العربية PDF to Text
- Step 1: قم بإسقاط ملف PDF أو صورة بالعربية (supports multi-page scans)
- Step 2: Arabic (العربية) is pre-selected as the OCR language
- Step 3: Optionally add English/French for mixed bilingual documents
- Step 4: اضغط على استخراج — Arabic glyphs recognised with RTL-aware output
- Step 5: انسخ النص أو حمّله كملف .docx or searchable PDF
Why Choose PDF AI Tools
We've built PDF AI Tools to replace expensive desktop software like Adobe Acrobat for 95% of common document workflows — at zero cost to you. Unlike competitors who gate features behind paywalls, add watermarks, or limit file sizes, our tools are genuinely free and genuinely unlimited. Your privacy matters: files processed client-side in your browser never touch our servers, and even AI-powered features use encrypted, auto-deleting processing pipelines.
Key Features
- Full Arabic script coverage — all 28 letters with positional variants (initial/medial/final/isolated)
- Diacritic (تشكيل) recognition — fatha, kasra, damma, shadda, sukun when present
- RTL text flow preserved — copy-pasted text reads right-to-left correctly in Word/Google Docs
- Handles mixed Arabic-English/French documents — common in Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia)
- Supports ligatures — لا (lam-alef) and compound forms recognised as single glyphs
- In-browser only — passports, national IDs, bank statements never upload
- Export to UTF-8 .txt, .docx, or searchable Arabic PDF
Frequently Asked Questions
هل يدعم هذا خط الرقعة أو خط الثلث (handwriting/calligraphy)?
لا. Tesseract Arabic model only supports printed Naskh and similar standard fonts. Diwani, Ruq'ah handwriting, and Thuluth calligraphy won't recognise reliably. For handwriting, specialised VLM models are needed — we're evaluating these for a future release.
Can I OCR Persian (فارسی) or Urdu (اردو) with this?
Partially. Persian uses Arabic script with 4 extra letters (پ چ ژ گ) — our Arabic model catches ~85% but loses those unique letters. For proper Persian/Urdu, select Persian or Urdu in the language picker — we have dedicated models for both.
ما مدى دقة OCR على الصحف العربية?
On clean printed Arabic newspapers (الشرق الأوسط، الأهرام، الجزيرة), typical accuracy is 92-96%. Tashkeel (diacritics) are optional in modern Arabic print and may or may not be captured depending on font. Arabic fonts with highly decorative styling (e.g., book covers) drop accuracy significantly.
Does it handle right-to-left text direction correctly?
Yes. The exported text includes proper Unicode RTL markers and will display right-to-left automatically in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, and any RTL-aware editor. Plain .txt files need an RTL-capable viewer (most modern editors support this).
Is the OCR done on your servers?
No — 100% in your browser. Sensitive Arabic documents like جواز السفر (passports), هوية وطنية (national IDs), and العقود (contracts) never leave your device. This is a hard privacy guarantee enforced by the architecture.