OCR search in scanned PDF files

Hi,
i have some PDF files created by scanning using Adobe 5.0 ME with Arabic support. when i did OCR in those documents, English search is OK and Arabic is not OK. Also when i copy paste Arabcic text, it shows junk characters. if any one have same such issues before, please respond.
Thanks in advance
Ameen

I don't think Arabic is a supported language in Acrobat's OCR.

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