Extracting Arabic text from scanned PDFs requires OCR with right-to-left language support. pdfeditor.onl supports Arabic in its Tesseract OCR engine.
Navigate to the OCR tool.
In the language selector, choose Arabic (عربي). The Tesseract engine loads the Arabic language model which supports right-to-left text recognition.
Tip: For mixed Arabic-English documents, select Arabic as the primary language — Tesseract handles bilingual content well with the Arabic model.
Click Scan All Pages. Review the recognized Arabic text in the editing panel. Save the searchable Arabic PDF.
Yes. The Tesseract Arabic model is trained for right-to-left text and handles Arabic script recognition accurately.
Yes — completely free at pdfeditor.onl/ocr-pdf.