Persian OCR - SimpleOCR

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When you scan a document that has text or numeric data on it, you are able to read and understand what is written in the scanned image. However, to a computer, the resulting image file is just as meaningless an assortment of pixels as a landscape photo. In order to transform this information into an editable format that you can search through, copy, and modify without retyping it manually, you will need the an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.

There is a wide variety of OCR software available. While they all share the ability to convert images of machine printed (not handwritten) text or numbers into an editable format, the various software often have different features, accuracy, prices, and language options.

Our OCR Software Guide and Comparison Chart explain the differences between the assortment of software available, as well as offer our recommendation for the best overall software when it comes to converting English documents. However, there is also a difference in the number and selection of languages that the various software can convert. Below, you will find a list of languages that our top three choices in Desktop OCR software are able to convert, with the languages that have dictionary support marked in italics.

Some language groups are more recent additions to the OCR scene. Among these are Arabic scripts, including Hebrew, and Asian characters, such as Chinese. While not all software support them out of the box, they are slowly being integrated, first as add-ons to the base software and eventually as part of the default language selection.

SimpleSoftware OCR engines are using two different systems for language support. In the end languages supported by your OCR is based on your basic version of SimpleIndex installed, any addons (SimpleIndex Server, SimpleCoversheet, and so on) […]

Farsi (Iranian/Persian) OCR

OCR Software with Iranian/Persian Language Support

Shop desktop, server and OCR data capture solutions that have Iranian/Persian language recognition capabilities.

Farsi/Persian OCR Applications

Farsi OCR converts combinations of Farsi (Arabic based) scripts into editable formats. This innovative recognition capability provides a competitive advantage that many OCR software programs do not have the capacity to support. Since ReadIRIS first developed optical character recognition to identify Persian languages characters on the PC platform. Unfortunately, Apple versions of ReadIRIS currently do not support Arabic, Hebrew, and Farsi scripts.

ABBYY FineReader Server has further advanced Farsi OCR capabilities for more modern, versatile applications.

ABBYY have incorporated Farsi OCR features into their FineReader Server and enterprise server OCR solutions. This Farsi OCR component is an optional accessory, and new users have the ability to choose their preferred version when purchasing. The helpful links below will take you directly to our Persian OCR supported programs.

All that said was true about Iranian languages using Arabic scripts. If you need to work with Cyrillic based Iranian languages (you need Tajik OCR for example), then your only choices are in ABBYY family of products like ABBYY FineReader Pro and ABBYY FineReader Corp

Farsi (Persian/Iranian) Arabic and Cyrillic languages recognition is included in the newest version of ABBYY FineReader Server.