About LexaOCR
Centuries of Urdu and Arabic writing sit in print that no search engine can read. LexaOCR exists to bring it back into use: searchable, editable, translatable and audible.
Why we built it
Urdu is printed mostly in Nastaliq, a beautiful script that general OCR tools read badly. Arabic newspapers and books bring their own difficulties: columns, small print and dots that fade. Publishers, libraries and scholars have been left to retype pages by hand. LexaOCR reads each line with several AI readers, checks every word, and asks a person only about the few words that are still uncertain.
The founder
Tabish Zaidi
Founder, Arabian AI Lab · Dubai
Tabish Zaidi is a Dubai-based technologist, Urdu poet and literary scholar from a family with four generations of Urdu poetry and scholarship. He has spent more than 20 years in enterprise technology across the Middle East and Africa, and now leads Arabian AI Lab, which builds language AI for Urdu and Arabic.
He is a founding member and PR Secretary of Bazm-e-Urdu Dubai, a long-standing partner of the Sharjah Book Authority, and lectures on linguistic and cultural AI at forums including the Pakistan Business Council and the Rekhta Foundation. He holds the Oxford Saïd–UNESCO certification in AI and Digital Transformation in Government.
Arabian AI Lab and the Lexa family
- LexaOCR reads Urdu, Arabic and nine more languages from scans into text, Word files and audio.
- LexaTranslate translates with 15 cultural translation agents into English and 14 other languages.
- LEXA Audify, for narrated audiobooks, is coming soon.
One Lexa account works across the family, and a verified LexaOCR document goes to LexaTranslate in one click.
Contact
Publishers, libraries and institutions: write to hello@arabianailab.com. Read how we protect documents on the security page.
Try it on one page
The quality check is free, and nothing is read until you confirm.