Determining Token Orientation on a PDF page

[rudra0713]

Hi, I am curious to know whether it's possible to determine a token's orientation (for example: vertical or horizontal) on a given PDF page using PyMuPDF.

[JorjMcKie]

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[JorjMcKie]

What do you mean by token? A piece of text? You can find the writing direction ...
If you mean vector graphics: you can see whether the area of a rectangle is rotated left or right ...

[rudra0713]

Sorry, I meant every span of text in a block (as per the definition of block dictionaries, mentioned here https://pymupdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/textpage.html#structure-of-dictionary-outputs).

[JorjMcKie]

Ok, thanks.
The span dictionary, together with the line dictionary gives you the writing direction and (almost) everything else you may want to know about the text span ...

[JorjMcKie]

Do you have questions about details there?

[JorjMcKie]

The only actually missing information is whether a span contains a right-to-left text. I am working on including this also.