From 7cc104b138d657df2a58c4c8414183a7c9c458fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Barlow <jim@purplerock.ca>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 11:16:40 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] hocr: account for skewed baseline

---
 .gitignore                | 1 +
 ocrmypdf/hocrtransform.py | 9 ++++++++-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index eeac20e1..14187069 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ tasks.py
 .bash_history
 .ruffus_history.sqlite
 .idea/
+.pytest_cache/
 
 # Package building
 *.egg-info/
diff --git a/ocrmypdf/hocrtransform.py b/ocrmypdf/hocrtransform.py
index 1c35370b..cbbdb27f 100755
--- a/ocrmypdf/hocrtransform.py
+++ b/ocrmypdf/hocrtransform.py
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ from reportlab.lib.units import inch
 from xml.etree import ElementTree
 from PIL import Image
 from collections import namedtuple
+from math import atan, sin, cos
 import re
 import argparse
 
@@ -238,8 +239,14 @@ class HocrTransform():
         baseline = self.baseline(line)
         if abs(baseline[0]) < 0.005:
             baseline = (0, baseline[1])
+        angle = atan(baseline[0])
+        cos_a, sin_a = cos(angle), sin(angle)
+
+        text.setTextTransform(
+            cos_a, -sin_a, sin_a, cos_a,
+            pt_line.x1, self.height - pt_line.y2
+        )
 
-        text.setTextOrigin(pt_line.x1, self.height - pt_line.y2)
         elements = line.findall(
                 ".//%sspan[@class='%s']" % (self.xmlns, elemclass))
         for elem in elements: