There is no hebrew support

[Ravid-Levy]

Hey Author, It support the hebrew and arabic letters but it write it in Inverted letters

where the code do the convert and get the letter? can you give me a line and I will push to you update with hebrew & arabic support

@dothinking

[dothinking]

Hi, Ravid,

Sorry for the late reply. It's not the first time I receive this issue report, but I'm not able to resolve it due to knowing nothing about the hebrew and arabic, or any other right-to-left language. So, it's great if you can contribute to this.

These are revelant issues: #73, #106

[dothinking]

where the code do the convert and get the letter?

Extract text with PyMuPDF, which seems recognize the rtl language correctly. Then, write text to docx with python-docx. Based on pdf2docx 0.5.4, the revelant codes writing text to docx:

• python_path\Lib\site-packages\pdf2docx\text\Line.py: around Line 173

  for span in self.spans: span.make_docx(p)  # where span is an instance of TextSpan

• python_path\Lib\site-packages\pdf2docx\text\TextSpan.py: around Line 377

  docx_run = paragraph.add_run(self.text)  # self.text is the text extracted directly from PyMuPDF

The direct fix seems to reverse both spans and span.text, like

for span in self.spans[::-1]: span.make_docx(p)

docx_run = paragraph.add_run(self.text[::-1])

But, as mentioned #106, "the problem is that the syntax is also reversed". Then I'm not able to proceed since have no idea on the syntax.

[dothinking]

By the way, the relation between Line and TextSpan: Line consists of a list of TextSpan-s, while the letters are contained in each TextSpan. For example, a line "a brown fox jumps over a lazy dog" might look like: a brown fox jumps over a lazy dog, with each highlighted part as a TextSpan.

In addition, we might need to adjust the text alignment as well, which is more complicated. Anyway, let's start from the first step for now. Many thanks in advance.

[devorel]

hi for fix it it very simple ... now it write like "olleh" but shuld be "hello" .
just Reverse the word and the words in the sentence. i put a link for Reverse tool . and you can see how its shuld be . https://www.cables.org.il/hebrew.htm and you can see alternatives tool that work well https://github.com/NaorYael/pdf-convert-hebrew-example