Arabic words are reversed

[3mora2]

Hey
thanks for great work but in Arabic words are reversed
Like:
'العامة والاسكان'
''ناكسالاو ةماعلا''
there way to be correct?

[JorjMcKie]

I presume you refer to text output on a PDF?
If so, try using the TextWriter class: methods TextWriter.append() and TextWriter.fill_textbox() have the parameter right_to_left.
Set this to True and it should work.
The older text output methods page.insert_text and friends do not support this.

[JorjMcKie]

still some letter when write from Left to right, then reverse ,don't return to its origin

? don't understand.
You mean the dir is not correctly set, or what?

[JorjMcKie]

Thre always is the possibility, that the PDF is coded in a chaotic way: I have seen example, where everything looked fine in a PDF viewer, but the extract was completely out of order: PFyuPMD instead of PyMuPDF.
You can always use page.get_text("rawdict") which gives you the ccordinates of every single character. This makes you independent from everything: sort the character coordinates by y- and then by x-coordinates.

[3mora2]

still some letter when write from Left to right, then reverse ,don't return to its origin

? don't understand.
You mean the dir is not correctly set, or what?

No, it set correctly
but some letter like 'الا' , i think some from Left to right and other from right to left

[3mora2]

Thre always is the possibility, that the PDF is coded in a chaotic way: I have seen example, where everything looked fine in a PDF viewer, but the extract was completely out of order: PFyuPMD instead of PyMuPDF.
You can always use page.get_text("rawdict") which gives you the ccordinates of every single character. This makes you independent from everything: sort the character coordinates by y- and then by x-coordinates.

Yes, it the best to give every single character
Thank you very much 💝

[3mora2]

can ask about format which open arabic file?