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

[Linux for blind general discussion]

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
>
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