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@bsekachev Thanks for letting me know that it's a dev decision. I may take some time and inspect the code architecture further to see if I can find any reliable...

Has anyone found a workaround to fix this?

I'm running into this same issue. All my target text is in join format. Is it possible to isolate the letters when they're joined?

@pubpub-zz From my first analysis, I think that the concatenation flow should be changed to handle more cases. I'm also inspecting whether it would be possible to fix this using...

There's also a decoding issue for some characters. To focus on inspecting the concatenation order issue, I'm manually overriding them by adding a temporary `cmap_override ` argument to `extract_text()`: ```...

@pubpub-zz I have an update regarding this issue. I'm not a BiDi expert (yet), but after further inspection, here's my humble conclusion so far: - How to handle bidi concatenation...

@pubpub-zz @MartinThoma After more experimentation, it looks like it's much simpler to just drop the RTL dir checks, process everything as LTR to provide the "logical" version of the text...