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Reconstructing Arabic PDFs to Word (.docx): Solving Ligatures, BiDi & Tables in Python

How We Solved Arabic PDF-to-Word Reconstruction & OCR: Preserving Ligatures, Layouts & Tables Converting PDF documents into clean, editable Microsoft Word ( .docx ) files has been a solved problem in English and Latin scripts for over a decade. In the Arabic language, however, it has notoriously re…

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  1. 2026-11-02 15:26 · DEV Community — AI
    Reconstructing Arabic PDFs to Word (.docx): Solving Ligatures, BiDi & Tables in Python

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