Arabic OCR: turn printed Arabic in an image into text

How to extract Arabic text from an image

1. Pick the file. A phone photo, a scanned page, a screenshot or page 1 of a PDF, as JPG, PNG, WEBP or HEIC, up to 5 MB.
2. Press Get the text. Arabic text recognition runs on the whole page, and the opening lines show up within a few seconds.
3. Confirm your email. Type the 6-digit code we send you. It unlocks the full text and sets up a free account if you do not have one yet.
4. Copy it or save it. Copy the Arabic with one click, or save it as a .txt file or as a Word document with its tables.

Does Arabic OCR keep the right-to-left order?

Yes. Each line comes back in the order an Arabic reader reads it, from right to left, and the letters come back joined as words, not as isolated shapes. Paste a line into a dictionary, a search box or an email and it reads the way it does on the page.

Printed Arabic

Certificates, forms, letters, contracts, book pages, signs and screenshots of messages or websites

Tables

A label column and a value column, as on an ID card, a transcript or a registry extract, come back as a real table in the Word file

Eastern Arabic numerals

Figures such as ٤٥٨٢١٧ and dates such as ١٥/٠٩/٢٠٢٤ stay exactly as printed

Arabic and Latin together

A Latin reference code or Western digits inside an Arabic line keep their place

Persian and Urdu

Pages in the same script come back as text too, Urdu printed in Nastaliq included

Stamps

An office stamp or seal stays in place in the Word file, where it sits on the original

Free ways to OCR Arabic text

Not every built-in tool reads Arabic. Apple's list of Live Text languages, checked on November 4, 2026, includes Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Russian but no Arabic[1], so Live Text is no help with an Arabic page.

Google Docs is a good choice for a plain page of running text. For a form or a certificate whose meaning sits in its table, the table is what you want back, and LoreAI returns it as one.

From Arabic text to an English Word file

The free tool returns the text in Arabic. To get it in English, upload the document to the LoreAI app. It recognizes Arabic on its own, translates into English or any of 105 languages, and gives you an editable Word file with headings, lists and tables in the original order. Names are written in Latin letters, and Eastern Arabic numerals become Western digits, so ٢٠٢٤ reads 2024.

A family book, a degree certificate or a bank statement of several pages goes in as one PDF and comes out as one Word file. Your first document is free, up to 3 pages. For a photo of a document, read how to translate an Arabic image to English. LoreAI is not a certified translation service. When an authority needs a certified translation, a translator reviews the Word draft and signs the certificate.

How to get a clean Arabic scan

• Lay the page flat and hold the phone straight above it, so the lines do not slant.
• Fill the frame with the page. Small Arabic letters with dots above and below need sharp detail, and Google asks for text at least 10 pixels high for its own converter[2].
• Light the page evenly and keep your shadow off it.
• Rotate the image upright before you upload it[2].
• For a WhatsApp chat or a web page, take a screenshot instead of photographing the screen.

Where your file goes

LoreAI sends the image to its OCR provider, which reads it once and deletes it. The recognized text is kept on LoreAI's server for 1 hour, long enough for you to sign in and open it, and only the browser that uploaded it can see it in that time. After that it is deleted.

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