A developed tool that recognizes strings, words and Arabic characters from scanned images. The possibilities and prospects for using the tool in research activities are considered. The results of experiments on the operational performance of the instrument are presented using the example of Old Tatar digitized images.

A tool has been developed that recognizes words or individual letters from a video stream in real time. The possibilities and prospects for its application in modern society are considered. The results of experiments to test the performance of this tool using the example of English words and Latin letters are presented.