Hi Didier, I did not do the testing on a PDF file. I did the testing in direct scan. I put the page on a flatbed scanner and hit the scan and recognize menu item in Lios. Cheers, Ibrahim Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 20, 2021, at 12:04 PM, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list