Arabic Optical Character Recognition is a relatively new option, and most OCR software does not support it out of the box. ReadIRIS was the first major OCR application to offer support for Arabic, Hebrew and Farsi optical character recognition on the PC platform. More recently, ABBYY FineReader has introduced an option for Hebrew and Arabic OCR in version 11. Both ABBBY and IRIS also offer Arabic Optical Character Recognition options in their enterprise server OCR solutions, Recognition Server and IRISDocument Server.

In both cases support for Arabic Optical Character Recognition is optional, so when purchasing be sure to select the correct version. The links below will take you directly to versions that support Arabic Optical Character Recognition.

Compare & Buy Arabic Optical Character Recognition

IRIS ReadIRIS Pro 14

ReadIRIS Pro OCR software with added support for Arabic (PC version only), Farsi and Hebrew character recognition.

IRIS ReadIRIS Corporate 14

Adds the ability to recognize files over 50 pages, business cards and monitor a hot folder to automatically process images in the background.

IRISDocument Server Arabic Language Pack

Enables Arabic and Farsi character recognition in the IRISDocument high-volume server OCR solution.

ABBYY FineReader Pro 11 with Arabic

FineReader Professional 11 supports Hebrew character recognition and now has an optional version with additional Arabic character recognition.

ABBYY FineReader Corporate 11 Arabic

FineReader Corporate also supports Hebrew character recognition and now has an optional version with additional Arabic character recognition.

ABBYY Recognition Server Arabic Module

A Hebrew language add-on is available for the ABBYY Recognition Server high-volume OCR solution.

OCR Software Categories

The complete OCR software guide has the following categories:
OCR Applications | OCR Servers | MAC OCR | PDF Converters | Personal OCR
Hebrew/Arabic/Farsi OCR | Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Thai OCR