Arabic OCR Built for Real Enterprise Documents
AlQari reads Arabic and English printed and scanned documents and returns machine-usable text — with per-region confidence and bounding boxes — so downstream extraction and validation have something reliable to work with. Accuracy varies with document quality.
Generic OCR wasn't built for Arabic
Most OCR engines were trained on Latin scripts. Arabic is cursive, its letter shapes change by position, diacritics carry meaning, and real business documents mix Arabic and English on the same page. Feed those into a generic engine and you get broken words, wrong reading order, and text you still have to retype by hand.
OCR that produces structured, checkable output
Arabic + English
Bilingual recognition with right-to-left handling, including pages that mix both scripts.
Printed & scanned
Digital PDFs and scanned images (PDF, PNG, JPG, JPEG) go through the same pipeline.
Structured output
Clean JSON with recognized text, per-region confidence scores, and bounding boxes.
Layout & reading order
Page structure and reading order are preserved where the source document supports it.
Confidence you can act on
Low-confidence regions are flagged so you can route them for review instead of trusting them blindly.
REST API
Upload a document and retrieve OCR output over an authenticated REST API.
From image to usable text
- 1
Ingest
Upload a PDF or image via the app, API, or a workflow trigger.
- 2
Recognize
The Arabic OCR engine reads the page, handling RTL and mixed scripts.
- 3
Structure
Text is returned as JSON with confidence and bounding boxes per region.
- 4
Hand off
Feed the output into data extraction, validation, or your own systems.
The Arabic-script challenges AlQari is built for
Cursive, position-dependent letters
Arabic letters connect and change shape depending on their position in a word. Recognition has to model the whole word, not isolated glyphs, to avoid splitting or merging characters.
Mixed RTL / LTR on one page
Invoices and letters routinely place English product codes, numbers, and dates inside Arabic sentences. AlQari keeps right-to-left and left-to-right runs in the correct order instead of scrambling them.
Numerals and diacritics
Arabic-Indic and Western digits appear side by side, and diacritics can change meaning. These are recognized rather than dropped.
Real-world scan quality
Skew, noise, stamps, and low-resolution scans are common. Output carries confidence so weak regions are visible instead of hidden.
Document types teams run through OCR
- Invoices
- Purchase orders
- Contracts
- Letters & memos
- Government forms
- Commercial registrations
- Scanned records
- Application forms
How AlQari compares to other platforms
See a transparent comparison of Arabic OCR, handwriting, structured extraction, validation, and workflow capabilities across leading document intelligence platforms.
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See AlQari read your Arabic documents
Upload a real document and get structured OCR output with confidence and bounding boxes. No manual retyping.