I've made a python script that takes a pdf with phrases and extract them into an anki deck. The script worked great with non semitic languages but when someone asked me to make a similar deck in Arabic I encountered a problem. In arabic you write from right to left, but the sentence I get it's written from left to write. It must be something about the extraction phase that need something extra to work with semitic languages, I just don't know what it is. Example: The actual text: The text that I got: sentence = "AR.(ةناشطع ♀) ناشطع نينكلو (ةعئاج تسل ♀) ،اعئاج تسل" I used PyPDF2 to extract the text and tried arabic-reshaper 2.1.4 and python-bidi to solve this but to no avail. I also tried reverse in various forms but it also reverses punctuation signs like "(". Any ideas? Continue reading...
