Bug 28076

Summary:	pdftohtml: RTL text generated backwards
Product:	poppler	Reporter:	Nezmer <me>
Component:	cairo backend	Assignee:	poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	Fahad.alsaidi
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description Nezmer 2010-05-12 05:04:58 UTC

"pdftohtml" seems to generate RTL text backwards. It's like (abc) is generated (cba). You can read the generated text from LTR but that's not convenient ;)

"pdftotext" is behaving correctly.

Comment 1 kirillkh 2010-12-17 09:09:11 UTC

I'm seeing the same issue with poppler-utils 0.12.4 (Ubuntu 10.04.1).

Workaround for Hebrew: convert with "-enc ISO-8859-8". However, that discards all non-Hebrew Unicode characters (such as those used in math).

Simply reversing the Hebrew words in the output doesn't help, since the order of words in a sentence is also backwards.

Comment 2 GitLab Migration User 2018-08-21 11:07:21 UTC

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