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Practical guides for turning scanned Arabic and multilingual documents into editable Word, searchable PDF, spreadsheets and translations.
Production workflows ·
Check the scans of an Arabic book before you run OCR
Check the resolution, colour mode and layout of every page in a scanned Arabic book PDF before OCR, with a per-page script and a rescan checklist.
Searchable PDF ·
How to check that a searchable Arabic PDF really works
Five checks to run before you archive, share or deliver an Arabic PDF that is meant to be searchable, plus a short script that runs most of them per page.
Books & scholarship ·
Check an Arabic EPUB before you publish it: direction, language, text
EPUBCheck can pass an Arabic EPUB that still opens left-to-right and is tagged English. Five checks to run on a converted Arabic e-book before upload.
Translation ·
Prepare an OCR'd Arabic Word file for memoQ or Trados: fewer tags
An OCR'd Arabic Word file opens in your CAT tool as tag soup and broken segments? How to measure it, clean the file and set the import before translating.
Books & scholarship ·
Turn footnote text in a converted Arabic book into Word footnotes
A converted Arabic edition has its notes as plain text at the foot of each page? How to rebuild them as real Word footnotes, number them and check them.
Books & scholarship ·
Urdu OCR to Word: fix Arabic letters, broken search and fonts
Why an OCR'd Urdu Word file mixes Arabic and Urdu letters, how to find and fix them, and which Nastaliq or Naskh font to deliver in.
Production workflows ·
QA checklist for an Arabic OCR Word file before you deliver it
Pre-delivery checks for an Arabic Word file made by OCR: structure, which pages to proofread, dotted-letter errors and cleaning hidden data.
Guides ·
Why Find can't locate Arabic words in a converted document
Search misses Arabic words you can see? Check hamza forms, tashkeel, tatweel and Persian or Urdu letter codes, then fix the text before you deliver it.
PDF to Word ·
How to fix reversed Arabic text after converting PDF to Word
Diagnose why Arabic comes out backwards or broken in Word after a PDF conversion, fix what Word can fix, and know when to reconvert instead.