pdfGetWordDirection

Get the writing direction of a word.
int pdfGetWordDirection(PDFWordHandle word)
This function returns the writing direction of a word (whose handle was obtained with pdfGetWord). It will return +1 for left-to-right scripts, -1 for right-to-left, and 0 for neither (certain punctuation marks).
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PDFWordHandle word; int primaryDir, wordDir; /* make word list for page 1 */ pdfBuildWordList(pdf, 1); /* get the primary writing direction for the page */ primaryDir = pdfGetPrimaryDirection(); for (i = 0; i < pdfGetNumWords(pdf); ++i) { word = pdfGetWord(pdf, i); wordDir = pdfGetWordDirection(word); ... }
pdfBuildWordList
pdfGetPrimaryDirection