Arabic OCR showcase: one hard PDF, every case

Last updated June 15, 2026

Instead of asking you to trust a number, this page hands you the hardest single document we could assemble. One PDF stacks eight different OCR cases on eight pages. Download it, convert it, and compare the Word output to the original — the same free preview lets you check the result on your own files before paying anything.

Clean digital Arabic text

The first page is crisp, born-digital Arabic — the best case. Modern printed Arabic like reports, articles, books and academic papers converts to editable, right-to-left Word with high accuracy.

A low-quality scan

The second page is a deliberately degraded scan: low contrast, noise and a slight skew. It shows OCR working under realistic, imperfect scanning conditions rather than only on pristine input.

An image-only page (no text layer)

The third page is a flattened image with no underlying text, so copy/paste yields nothing and a search finds nothing. This forces real optical character recognition — there is no text layer to shortcut, which is exactly the situation a scanned PDF puts you in.

Handwriting

The fourth page is a handwriting sample. We include it for completeness, but handwriting and damaged archival scans are out of scope today — the showcase demonstrates the case, it does not claim accuracy on it. This is precisely why the free preview on your own document matters.

Multi-column layout

The fifth page splits text into two side-by-side columns. Good conversion has to recover the right-to-left reading order within each column rather than scrambling the two together.

A table

The sixth page is a gridded table mixing Arabic labels and Arabic-Indic numerals, testing whether rows and columns survive the trip into Word.

Mixed Arabic and English

The seventh page mixes Arabic with embedded English terms like OCR, Word and PDF inside one paragraph — each run has to keep its own direction (bidi) so the sentence stays readable.

A rotated page

The last page is rotated 90 degrees, the kind of orientation accident that creeps into real scans. The converter should read it the right way up rather than producing sideways gibberish.

Download and try it yourself

Grab the torture-test PDF below and run it through the converter. Compare the editable Word output to the original pages, then do the same with your own files using the free preview before you pay.

1. Download the torture-test PDF below.
2. Upload it to the converter and run a free preview on any page.
3. Pay only for the pages you convert, then download the editable right-to-left Word (.docx) file.
4. Compare the Word output to the original PDF pages to judge the quality for yourself.