Thanks. I will check it out. I had in the past downloaded some stuff but was not satisfied with. Perhaps you have struck the lode stone.
I had looked at this tool some time back. It will not run on Windows ME plateform which I am using. But thanks for the effort.
The problem is that the documents are not in typed or printed Arabic, but rather handwritten text. Because of individual variations, as well as variations within even a single document, written text is much harder to "recognize" than printed text. From looking at the site it appears that their character recognition software works very well with printed text. It would probably not work so well with hand written text. At minimum it might have to be "trained" on each individuals writing style. Still as I indicated above, it appears that written Arabic is more akin to hand printed English than cursive English. Lord knows even my printing is hard enough to read, my cursive is next to impossible. Arabic writing seems to have mix of the charactertics of hand printed and cursive English writing.