Nuqta OCRنقطة

Guides

Arabic OCR that keeps tashkeel (diacritics)

Most OCR drops Arabic diacritics or invents them. Nuqta copies the tashkeel printed on the page and almost never adds any.

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The same letters can be different words depending on their marks. A model that guesses marks from context changes the text; a model that drops them loses meaning in vocalized books, poetry, religious texts and children's books.

How Nuqta handles marks

Choose the output

ocr.read("page.jpg").text                # as written: marks only where printed
ocr.read("page.jpg", mode="bare").text   # no marks at all, for search and indexing

Questions

Which Arabic OCR supports diacritics?

Nuqta OCR reads tashkeel exactly as printed, with 0.997 mark F1 on vocalized text and almost no invented marks on plain text.