Important New Developments in Arabographic Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
This provides a freely accessible, high-accuracy OCR tool for the Islamic, Persian, and Arabic Studies communities, addressing a domain-specific need with incremental improvements over existing proprietary methods.
The OpenITI team tackled OCR for classical Arabic-script texts, achieving accuracy rates in the high nineties on over 7,000 lines of diverse texts, which improves upon proprietary options and is made freely available as open-source software.
The OpenITI team has achieved Optical Character Recognition (OCR) accuracy rates for classical Arabic-script texts in the high nineties. These numbers are based on our tests of seven different Arabic-script texts of varying quality and typefaces, totaling over 7,000 lines. These accuracy rates not only represent a distinct improvement over the actual accuracy rates of the various proprietary OCR options for classical Arabic-script texts, but, equally important, they are produced using an open-source OCR software, thus enabling us to make this Arabic-script OCR technology freely available to the broader Islamic, Persian, and Arabic Studies communities.