title: Open-source OCR library for Arabic
body: <p>I was looking around for an OCR library - optimally it would be open-source - that I could use on some Arabic pdfs. Googling it didn't result in anything useful. I was wondering if anyone knows a related OCR library or even one that works on related languages (Farsi and Urdu could be relevant) that Arabic support could be added to. </p>
  
  <p>Any general suggestions on how to approach this will be appreciated. </p>