SAKHR Software Company

SAKHR Software Company (ØµØ®Ø±) is an Arabic language technology company based in Kuwait. It deals with products for the Middle East in e-governance, education, wireless, and security.
Sakhr was founded in 1982 by Mohammed AlSharekh after branching out of his computer hardware company Alamiah Electronics by producing Arabic versions of the MSX computers. After nearly three decades in the industry and more than US $100 million investments, it now leads the field in Arabic language machine translation, OCR, speech recognition, speech synthesis, search, and localisation.
The Company currently has 200 employees worldwide. Its research and engineering activities are in Silicon Valley and Egypt, with sales offices in the U.S. (Washington, DC and California), Kuwait, UAE (Dubai and Abu Dhabi), Oman, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. <references/>
Sakhr Software
* Arabic Optical Character Recognition
* Arabic Speech Recognition
Dial Directions
In 2009, Sakhr acquired Dial Directions, Inc., a U.S. Silicon Valley software company providing language applications for mobile cloud-computing environments, including wireless carriers, telematics, and “smartphones” such as the Apple iPhone to enhance its market position in the emerging mobile application & cloud computing market
Awards
Sakhr software has won the following International awards:
* eContent Award - Arabic Language Buddy for smart phones (2010)
* Oman Portal - Arab Web Awards (2010)
* World Summit Award - IBSAR (Screen reader for the blind) (2007)
* World Summit Award - Best e-content (Web Content Translation Engine - Tarjim) (2005)
* Arabian Business E-Achievement Award E-Visionary of the Year (2002)
* Internet Shopper (T4S International Group): Best Arabic Language Supported Site (GITEX Cairo 2000)
* Damtex Middle East Group: Best Arabic Application Development Company (1999)

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