I'm doing a search for OCR software that handles Arabic and Farsi  
(Persian) and supports Unicode.  Windows and/or OS X.  So far I've  
come up with:

Verus
http://aramedia.com/ndverus.htm

Arabic, Farsi/Persian, Dari, Pashto with supported for embedded  
English and French. With   TIF, PDF, PNG, JPEG.   Output: Text, RTF  
and PDF with Hidden Text  formats. Unicode output.

Standard: $1,295.95

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Don't have the name yet, will be up on http://www.worldlanguage.com/  
tomorrow, ID: 110084

Arabic, Persian-Farsi, Pashto, English, French, Dari. Afghanistan.

$2,499.95.

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http://www.101language.com/

Awaiting email response if they carry such software.

Readiris Pro 11 Middle-East.

$499.00

http://www.irislink.com/c2-561/Readiris-Pro-11-Middle-East-Edition- 
OCR-Software.aspx

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Any experience with Arabic and Persian OCR?  Thanks.

Bob Majors
Language Learning Center
University of Washington
SEATTLE WA
http://depts.washington.edu/llc/




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