Can a fluent AI answer prove that OCR was accurate?

No. Verify the recognised text against source images, especially where omissions or layout errors could change meaning.

Check Arabic-English OCR quality before regional legal review

Executive summary

Validate the extracted text against the source images before analysing it. Focus on errors that can change legal meaning and record material that needs manual review.

Inspect representative and difficult pages.

Check tables, dates, amounts, and negatives.

Preserve unreadable items as explicit review gaps.

Select meaningful quality samples

A regional document set may mix clean PDFs, scans, stamps, handwritten notes, and bilingual tables. Sample each format and inspect pages likely to be difficult.

A successful first page does not establish that the entire file was recognised correctly. Include annexes and low-quality scans in the check.

Compare text with the page image

Review reading order, paragraph boundaries, numbers, names, negatives, and footnotes. In bilingual layouts, confirm that text from separate columns has not been combined into one sentence.

Keep the source image available to the reviewer. Extracted text alone cannot reveal every omitted mark or passage.

Test a broken table

Suppose a payment table places an amount beside the wrong milestone after extraction. A later AI summary may confidently report the wrong commercial arrangement.

Check row and column relationships against the original and correct the review input through the approved process. Do not merely ask the model to infer the intended table.

Route failed material

Record pages requiring a better scan, manual transcription, translation review, or another tool. Identify the effect on the legal task.

Do not describe an analysis as complete when material passages were unreadable. A clear boundary lets counsel decide how to proceed.

Preserve quality evidence

Save the checked version, corrections, reviewer, and remaining limitations. Recheck extraction if the source file changes.

Judicio can assist document analysis and translation. Source-quality checks remain necessary because a fluent output can reproduce or conceal errors introduced before analysis begins.

Sources and next steps

This is an editorial workflow guide for legal professionals. The suggested checks are our practical recommendations, not a statement that a regulator requires a particular software workflow.

Al Meezan: Qatar legal portal

Explore Document Review and Translation, or review Judicio's regional coverage and limitations. Check the underlying source and your organisation's approved process before relying on an output.