A significant portion of the Arab world's historical and contemporary knowledge exists in printed or handwritten form, from archival documents and books to invoices and forms, and the technology that unlocks this digital potential is a sophisticated Arabic OCR pipeline. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for Arabic is the technology that converts images of typed or handwritten text into machine-encoded text. However, a simple OCR engine is insufficient; a full Arabic OCR pipeline is a multi-stage, automated workflow designed to handle the unique challenges of the Arabic script.