Arabic Handwriting OCR — Scan & Recognise Arabic Script Free
Optical character recognition for handwritten **Arabic**. Arabic joins letters into different initial, medial and final forms and reads right-to-left, with dots and tashkeel that change meaning. Because the script runs right-to-left, our engine keeps the correct reading order in the output. Our OCR engine handles it and gives you clean, editable text from any image or PDF.
Drag and drop or
PNG, JPEG, JPG, WEBP, HEIC, HEIF, PDF up to 20 MB
or drag and drop, or paste with Ctrl + V
Extracted text
Your extracted arabic text will appear here. Upload an image on the left to get started.
What our Arabic handwriting OCR does
Optical character recognition made for the way Arabic is actually written across the Middle East and North Africa.
Free with no limits
No sign-up, no watermark and no daily cap — run OCR on as much handwritten Arabic as you need.
Keeps layout and line breaks
The recognition output mirrors your page: paragraphs and line breaks in the Arabic original are preserved.
Handles the Middle East writing styles
Handwriting varies a lot across the Middle East and North Africa. The OCR model is built to cope with that range in Arabic.
Accurate Arabic script recognition
Arabic joins letters into different initial, medial and final forms and reads right-to-left, with dots and tashkeel that change meaning. Our OCR is tuned for Arabic specifically, so arabic connected-form recognition is handled properly instead of being guessed.
Reads real Arabic handwriting
This engine is trained on everyday Arabic penmanship from the Middle East and North Africa, not just neat print — so casual and rushed writing is still recognised.
Scan photos, images and PDFs
Upload a phone photo, a scanner image or a multi-page PDF. The OCR pulls Arabic text out of letters, notes, forms and official documents.
From a Arabic scan to editable text
From a photo of Arabic writing to recognised, editable text in under a minute.
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Upload the image or PDF to scan
Drag in a photo, scan or PDF of the handwritten Arabic. JPG, PNG, HEIC and PDF all work.
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Run the OCR recognition
The engine reads every Arabic character, following the right-to-left order, and recognises it as digital Arabic text.
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Review, edit and export
Check the recognised text, fix anything if needed, then copy it or export to Word, PDF, TXT or Markdown.
Arabic OCR: common questions
Arabic joins letters into different initial, medial and final forms and reads right-to-left, with dots and tashkeel that change meaning. Our engine is built specifically to deal with that.
Both. You can scan images (JPG, PNG, HEIC) and multi-page PDF documents.
Yes — export to Word (.docx), PDF, plain text or Markdown, or simply copy it to your clipboard.
Yes. Images are processed for recognition and then deleted immediately — nothing is retained.
Yes. The Arabic OCR runs in any modern mobile or desktop browser, so you can photograph a page and recognise it on the spot.
Anything handwritten — letters, notes, forms and official documents, and more.