ocr-arabic

OCR + transliteration on arabic scanned images

Used specifically for Lebanese Government ID card scanned images

Installation

• clone this repository
• install jq, curl, direnv
• copy .envrc.dist to .envrc and set Google vision API key into env var GOOGLE_VISION_API_KEY
  • get it from google cloud console
• direnv allow .

Usage

Download example scanned ID

wget https://www.tradearabia.com/source/2014/08/06/id.jpg -O images/id.jpg

Run OCR and transliteration

./ocr-arabic.sh images/id.jpg

Example input

Example output

Transliterated                          |                                     OCR
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United Arab Emirates o                  |                  o setarimE barA detinU
. ldentity card                         |                         drac ytitnedl .
dwlp Al<mArAt AlErbyp AlmtHdp           |ةدحتملا ةيبرعلا تارامإلا ةلود
bTAqp hwyp                              |                     ةيوه ةقاطب
Number                                  |                                  rebmuN
rqm Alhwyp / ID                         |                DI / ةيوهلا مقر
784-1977-1234566-1                      |                      1-6654321-7791-487
mn Al<sm: AHmd mHmd Ebd Allh            |هللا دبع دمحم دمحا :مسإلا نم
Name: Ahmed Mohamed Abdulla             |             alludbA demahoM demhA :emaN
Aljnsyp: Al<mArAt AlErbyp AlmtHdp       |ةدحتملا ةيبرعلا تارامإلا :ةيسنجلا
Nationality: United Arab Emirates       |       setarimE barA detinU :ytilanoitaN