Hi,
I was working on a MATLAB implementation for Arabic OCR on graduate course project and I decided to release it as as open source software under GPL license.
Disclaimer
This implementation was a part of a graduate course project and actually it achieves very poor results, you can’t rely on it for any real OCR but it will be useful as a starting point to learn from and build on.
Details
You can learn all about it here : My github repo
Ahmed's website 