How can I add Arabic as a recognition language to Lios?

[Linux for blind general discussion]

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