Software and services that help you convert image documents into text files.

In this article, I will try to collect the best apps and websites that help us convert image documents into text files that are readable for the blind. The list will be updated continuously, God willing.
We will divide this article into two main parts, sites and applications, and applications we will divide into mobile applications and Windows system applications.

Locations:

Here we will add sites and services that provide document scanning, with support for the Arabic language.
1. ocr. space
This is one of the distinguished sites that we used to convert PDF documents, images, image files, and the like. Excellent site, supportive of the Arabic language.
2. Google Drive
Google Docs provides the ability to scan image files, which are excellent and supportive of the Arabic language, despite some limitations in file sizes, but it remains a good service for small and divided files.
Below is an explanation by Dr. Rania Sharif about dealing with the service:

Applications:

Here we will list all the useful applications for converting documents into text formats, mentioning the operating system.

Windows system applications

mbOCR software
It is a program developed by Mohamed Bashir, easy to use and supports the Arabic language.
Here is more information about the programme.
Explanation of using the program with Ahmed Adel:

Mobile operating system applications

Envision
We can't talk about scanning apps, and the envision- app isn't in the lead. It provides the best Arabic support scan engine, and can convert large files. Along with other features.
Click here to download the iOS version
Here it is for the Android version

This is a playlist from the tech experts YouTube channel explaining all the features of the software.

Sullivan+
This app is for Android and is free to date.
In addition to the ability to recognize the text by taking a picture you can also
Share any image from any other app as whatsapp to text recognition app
which it contains.
The application has other features such as the ability to recognize colors and the level of illumination and give
A description of the contents of the image and telling the user the gender of the person by photographing their face
In addition to his approximate age.
Smart Lens
This app is not designed primarily for the blind but is compatible with screen readers.
The application can recognize Arabic texts either by photographing the text or by
By sharing photos from other apps. The app has good accuracy.
The application has two versions, free and paid. It is known that the developer welcomes submission
The paid version for the blind is free of charge through codes that can be added in
The app for the paid version.
You can try “godblessyou” inside the app, and if it doesn’t work, anyone who can’t can
Blind App Purchase Contact the developer.
Eye-D Pro
This application provides a lot of services for the blind, including the recognition service
on texts filmed through the camera or shared to the app,
In addition to the ability to open and read pdf files.
The application is paid and services can be purchased through the application store.
The application is availablefor Android و ios
Google Lens
This application is mainly to identify the contents of the images and help to find
Information related to it, such as the ability to view a location through Google Maps or search
For similar photos or help with specific actions such as saving a phone number as a contact.
But one of the characteristics of the application is the ability to read the text contained in the images, which is distinct
In this field, you can copy the recognized text or listen to it through
High quality Google Voices.

Useful resources.

We put here some resources and articles that talk about converting documents and dealing with them:
1.
pdf files and the blind with the computer … considerations and solutions. For Professor Suleiman Al-Qasimi

Thank you Karen for helping to add Android apps.