Arabic OCR with an API: Make Scanned Arabic PDFs Searchable (Python)

This article shows how to make scanned Arabic PDFs searchable using the PDF Tools API. The API uses Tesseract with Arabic and English language models to recognize mixed Arabic/English documents. To use it, you need a free API key and can run a single Python script to convert a scanned PDF to a searchable PDF. This approach is useful for real workflows where the original document needs to be kept exactly as scanned, but it becomes searchable and accessible.