{"id":3763,"date":"2017-04-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/2017\/04\/06\/steps-to-convert-your-scanned-arabic-text-to-microsoft-word\/"},"modified":"2021-09-20T09:19:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T09:19:18","slug":"steps-to-convert-your-scanned-arabic-text-to-microsoft-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/2017\/04\/06\/steps-to-convert-your-scanned-arabic-text-to-microsoft-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Steps to Convert Your Scanned Arabic Text to Microsoft Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It can be difficult and frustrating to find a way to convert your scanned Arabic text into a Microsoft Word document. Recently, some websites and optical character recognition (OCR) tools have made improvements in this area, but many still yield undesirable results.<\/p>\n<p>The most effective tool I have found is free and available to users of Google Drive. Google&#8217;s server based engine runs the files stored on Google Drive and with one click, you get your outlined or scanned Arabic text recognized and converted into a text document in Google Docs.<\/p>\n<h5>Here are the steps to get your scanned Arabic text converted:<\/h5>\n<p><strong>First Step:<\/strong> Open your Google Drive account (<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">drive.google.com<\/a>) and upload the scanned image or PDF.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Arabic text\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/scanned20arabic20-201_879x399.jpg\" alt=\"Scanned Arabic Text - 1\" width=\"879\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Second Step:<\/strong> Right click the document and select Open with &gt; Google Docs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"arabic text\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/scanned20arabic20-202_887x502.jpg\" alt=\"Scanned Arabic text- 2\" width=\"887\" height=\"502\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Google Docs will open a new doc file containing the converted Arabic text.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"arabic text\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/scanned20arabic20-203_890x537.jpg\" alt=\"Scanned Arabic text - 3\" width=\"890\" height=\"537\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Third Step:<\/strong> Download the new document containing the Arabic text to your computer by selecting<br \/>\nFile menu &gt; Download as &gt; Microsoft Word (.docx).<\/p>\n<h5>Quick Tips<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>For the best result, have the image in the best available quality.<\/li>\n<li>All pages should be in the correct direction or the engine will not be able to recognize the language or its characters.<\/li>\n<li>This tool recognizes only the text and ignores almost all of the formatting attributes. However, this step itself is extremely helpful when the alternative is typing the text.<\/li>\n<li>The file types that can be converted are (JPG, PNG, GIF and PDF), so make sure your text is in one of these formats with the highest resolution available.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The engine used for this conversion is not only powerful for Arabic text, but for a large list of other languages. You can find the full list at <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/drive\/answer\/176692?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Drive Help Center.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can be difficult and frustrating to find a way to convert your scanned Arabic text into a Microsoft Word document. Recently, some websites and optical character recognition (OCR) tools have made improvements in this area, but many still yield undesirable results. 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