ossappscollective / ossappscollective/OSS-DocumentScanner

RTL OCR Not properly selected

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Description

Arabic text is successfully extracted but selection is a problem because it treats the text as if it is LTR

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Research direction

Start by reproducing the issue with Arabic text in the Android document-scanning app and trace the OCR output through the text-selection path. Done means Arabic text remains selectable in the correct right-to-left order rather than being handled as left-to-right.

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Assessment

Tech stack
android, cpp, opencv
Domain
computer-vision, internationalization, mobile
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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