Arabic OCR in C# and .NET

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IronOCR is a C# software component allowing .NET coders to read text from images and PDF documents in 126 language, including Arabic.

It is an advanced fork of Tesseract, built exclusively for the .NET developers and regularly outperforms other Tesseract engines for both speed and accuracy.

Contents of IronOcr.Languages.Arabic

This package contains 108 OCR languages for .NET:

  • Arabic
  • ArabicBest
  • ArabicFast
  • ArabicAlphabet
  • ArabicAlphabetBest
  • ArabicAlphabetFast

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Arabic Language Pack [العربية]

Installation

The first thing we have to do is install our Arabic OCR package to your .NET project.

PM> Install-Package IronOCR.Languages.Arabic

Code Example

This C# code example reads Arabic text from an Image or PDF document.

//PM> Install-Package IronOcr.Languages.Arabic
using IronOcr;

var Ocr = new IronTesseract();
Ocr.Language = OcrLanguage.Arabic;
using (var Input = new OcrInput(@"images\Arabic.png"))
{
    var Result = Ocr.Read(Input);
    var AllText =  Result.Text;
}
//PM> Install-Package IronOcr.Languages.Arabic
using IronOcr;

var Ocr = new IronTesseract();
Ocr.Language = OcrLanguage.Arabic;
using (var Input = new OcrInput(@"images\Arabic.png"))
{
    var Result = Ocr.Read(Input);
    var AllText =  Result.Text;
}
'PM> Install-Package IronOcr.Languages.Arabic
Imports IronOcr

Private Ocr = New IronTesseract()
Ocr.Language = OcrLanguage.Arabic
Using Input = New OcrInput("images\Arabic.png")
	Dim Result = Ocr.Read(Input)
	Dim AllText = Result.Text
End Using
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