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tonym95322753
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January 22, 2017
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How do I extract Arabic Text using Acrobat DC?

  • January 22, 2017
  • 9 replies
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I want to extract Arabic text from a pdf. I have attempted many things with no success including exporting to word format, simple copy and paste, installing the apparent font (AXtGIHane), scanning/ocr, etc... Nothing has worked.  I downloaded the trial version of Acrobat DC, and have attempted several things with it as well (installing fonts, exporting, editing, trying to use OCR), without success.  I can see that it has many features/settings so I may be missing something. I notice that when I look for Arabic among the language list, it is not present.  I would be happy to provide a the file I'm using, or a portion of it. Although I'm working with the Macintosh version, I also have Windows 10 available, if that would help.

Thanks for your help,

-Tony

    Correct answer Lovekesh Garg

    Hi Tony, We are sorry to say that, but you can't extract Arabic text using Acrobat. We don't have Arabic support yet. I am raising a feature request for you.

    Thanks.

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    JCDecaux0101
    Participant
    February 11, 2025

    It been years, Does Adobe Acrobat Pro have Arabic OCR now ?
    Regards,

    Zaid Al Hilali
    Community Expert
    Zaid Al HilaliCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 11, 2025

    Sadly, no OCR for Arabic Langauge yet.

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    wballaa
    Participant
    January 24, 2024

    I'm a long time subscriber to Acrobat DC and I came here 7 years after OP hoping Adobe finally supported Arabic (after all it is one of the official six languages of the UN) but sadly it seems this is still not a priority 😞 

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      AbuJasim23582843gmn8
      Participant
      May 8, 2022

      Adobe scientists 3 decades not enough to support Arabic.

      Is it normal?? 

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        حا5C4F
        Participant
        October 27, 2021
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        thierryl29855698
        Participant
        October 3, 2019

        Just use ABBYY FineReader

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        Minatalaat
        Participant
        October 20, 2019

        does it perform the same job as adobe DC with arabic recognition?

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        AlaaEldin_Moustafa
        Participant
        April 27, 2019

        Is there any progress in this matter

        Dov Isaacs
        Dov Isaacs
        Legend
        May 6, 2019

        Regrettably, not!

                  - Dov

        - Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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        Cheko55
        Participant
        October 3, 2019
        it's been almost 3 years now, and our company has got a big group of full ADOBE DC license. If this issue wasn't solved I wonder why?
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        yasserfarid
        Participant
        September 16, 2017

        Hi, I want to ask if there is any progress or news about supporting recognizing Arabic Text in Adobe Acrobat pro, or any Arabic OCR tool?, thanks, 

          Zaid Al Hilali
          Community Expert
          Zaid Al HilaliCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          September 18, 2017

          Marhaba Yasser,

          Adobe have Arabic OCR under review for the past few months. We don't know how long it will take to see Arabic supported.

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            NOOSHINRAD
            Inspiring
            October 14, 2018

            so I understand that this post is for about a year ago. Are there any new updates on the matter?

              Zaid Al Hilali
              Community Expert
              Zaid Al HilaliCommunity Expert
              Community Expert
              February 6, 2017

              Acrobat DC supports Arabic within many feature but not all. What you requested ie. copy Arabic text from a PDF on to MS. Word or any other application will not work in Acrobat DC, it used to work in Acrobat X and prior such as 9, 8.

              Similarly, exporting the content of your Arabic PDF to RTF or Word, will not be so successful either, however you may try it, the result will be between 0 – 10% success rate depending on how the PDF was created and which application generated it.

              We have requested Adobe to look at these issues, and have been promised well.

                SarahRagaei
                SarahRagaei
                Participant
                April 3, 2020

                I have tried to find a link to download the Sakhr OCR software but found nothing on their website. Would you kindly advise how can we get it?

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                miss kw43574044
                Participant
                April 7, 2020

                Please check your in-box I sent you a private message.


                Hi, Could you help me with this Sakhr OCR software as well?

                Lovekesh Garg
                Adobe Employee
                Lovekesh GargCorrect answer
                Adobe Employee
                January 23, 2017

                Hi Tony, We are sorry to say that, but you can't extract Arabic text using Acrobat. We don't have Arabic support yet. I am raising a feature request for you.

                Thanks.

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                  Anonymous
                  February 11, 2020

                  I recently upgraded my subscription to acrobat pro to be able to edit a text written in Arabic. I couldn't do it. When I exported the text to Word I got two three phrases in Arabic and the rest was a page with strange characters.

                  Why don't you have a version in that language?

                  and why Arabic is not supported?

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