diff --git a/configs/rec/PP-OCRv3/multi_language/arabic_PP-OCRv3_rec.yml b/configs/rec/PP-OCRv3/multi_language/arabic_PP-OCRv3_rec.yml
index 0ad1ab0adc189102ff07094fcda92d4f9ea9c662..8c650bd826d127f25c907f97d20d1a52f67f9203 100644
--- a/configs/rec/PP-OCRv3/multi_language/arabic_PP-OCRv3_rec.yml
+++ b/configs/rec/PP-OCRv3/multi_language/arabic_PP-OCRv3_rec.yml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Global:
   checkpoints:
   save_inference_dir:
   use_visualdl: false
-  infer_img: doc/imgs_words/ch/word_1.jpg
+  infer_img: ./doc/imgs_words/arabic/ar_2.jpg
   character_dict_path: ppocr/utils/dict/arabic_dict.txt
   max_text_length: &max_text_length 25
   infer_mode: false
diff --git a/ppocr/postprocess/rec_postprocess.py b/ppocr/postprocess/rec_postprocess.py
index fc9fccfb143bf31ec66989e279d0bcc1c9baa5cc..f77631700648e84f28223cb14738e7b4ab679012 100644
--- a/ppocr/postprocess/rec_postprocess.py
+++ b/ppocr/postprocess/rec_postprocess.py
@@ -45,6 +45,27 @@ class BaseRecLabelDecode(object):
             self.dict[char] = i
         self.character = dict_character
 
+        if 'arabic' in character_dict_path:
+            self.reverse = True
+        else:
+            self.reverse = False
+
+    def pred_reverse(self, pred):
+        pred_re = []
+        c_current = ''
+        for c in pred:
+            if not bool(re.search('[a-zA-Z0-9 :*./%+-]', c)):
+                if c_current != '':
+                    pred_re.append(c_current)
+                pred_re.append(c)
+                c_current = ''
+            else:
+                c_current += c
+        if c_current != '':
+            pred_re.append(c_current)
+
+        return ''.join(pred_re[::-1])
+
     def add_special_char(self, dict_character):
         return dict_character
 
@@ -73,6 +94,10 @@ class BaseRecLabelDecode(object):
                 conf_list = [0]
 
             text = ''.join(char_list)
+
+            if self.reverse:  # for arabic rec
+                text = self.pred_reverse(text)
+
             result_list.append((text, np.mean(conf_list).tolist()))
         return result_list
 
diff --git a/ppocr/utils/dict/arabic_dict.txt b/ppocr/utils/dict/arabic_dict.txt
index e97abf39274df77fbad066ee4635aebc6743140c..916d421c53bad563dfd980c1b64dcce07a3c9d24 100644
--- a/ppocr/utils/dict/arabic_dict.txt
+++ b/ppocr/utils/dict/arabic_dict.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
- 
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 #
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