Upload a photo or scan with Arabic (العربية) writing and get editable Arabic text in seconds.
Ocr4you reads Arabic (العربية) text from photos, screenshots and scanned pages and turns it into real, editable Unicode text. Upload a JPG, PNG, WEBP, TIFF or BMP file, click Extract Text, and a few seconds later you can copy the Arabic text or download it as a TXT file. You do not need to install a Arabic keyboard or type anything again. People search for this as "Arabic image to text", "Arabic OCR" or "تحويل الصورة إلى نص عربي", and this page does exactly that.
Arabic is read and written by millions of people in the Middle East, North Africa and Muslim communities worldwide. A huge amount of everyday paperwork in Arabic still exists only on paper or as a picture: Arabic books, the Qur'an and Islamic texts, invoices from the Gulf, visas, residence permits and certificates. Retyping these by hand is slow and full of mistakes, especially when you have to find each Arabic (Naskh) letter on a phone keyboard. With OCR you photograph the page once and get text you can edit, translate, search, quote in an assignment or paste into a WhatsApp message.
Arabic letters change shape depending on whether they come at the start, middle or end of a word, and short vowels (harakat) are written as small marks above or below. The OCR joins these forms back into normal Unicode Arabic. Fully vowelled religious text works best with the Advanced AI mode and a high resolution scan.
The engine behind Ocr4you is an AI document text model that detects the language automatically, so you do not have to pick Arabic from a list. It also handles pages that mix Arabic with English words, numbers, dates and phone numbers, which is very common in forms, bills and notices.
Every visitor gets free OCR pages to start, with no sign-up needed, and you can buy more pages from the pricing page if you process a lot of Arabic documents. Uploaded images are used only to extract the text and are not shared or published. Your result is shown only to you in your browser session.
Yes. Ocr4you gives free OCR pages to every visitor without sign-up. Upload your Arabic image, click Extract Text and copy the result.
Yes. The output is standard Unicode Arabic (Arabic (Naskh) script), so it works in Word, Google Docs, WhatsApp, email and any website.
No. The OCR detects Arabic automatically, and it also reads English words and numbers mixed into the same page.
Neat handwriting in Arabic often works, but printed text gives the best accuracy. For handwriting, use a sharp photo and try our handwriting to text page.
JPG, JPEG, PNG, WEBP, TIFF and BMP images up to 20 MB each. For PDFs use the Scanned PDF to Text tool.