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

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Hi Ibrahim,

That is is what I understood, but I would like to know if the same issue occurs
with a PDF file, hence my requests that we both test with the same PDF file.
Even more so as I do not have a scanner at hand right now to reproduce the test
you did.

Cheers,
Didier

Le 20/12/2021 à 18:12, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit :
> 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 at redhat.com> 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
>>
>>
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