From 7d63355c3c5efa139a4cbebe118517a58212b20b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "James R. Barlow" <james@purplerock.ca>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 01:41:41 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Use hocr renderer for LTR languages

---
 src/ocrmypdf/builtin_plugins/tesseract_ocr.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/ocrmypdf/builtin_plugins/tesseract_ocr.py b/src/ocrmypdf/builtin_plugins/tesseract_ocr.py
index 9a8a4e79..a7b5c9d5 100644
--- a/src/ocrmypdf/builtin_plugins/tesseract_ocr.py
+++ b/src/ocrmypdf/builtin_plugins/tesseract_ocr.py
@@ -146,7 +146,11 @@ def check_options(options):
 
     # Decide on what renderer to use
     if options.pdf_renderer == 'auto':
-        options.pdf_renderer = 'sandwich'
+        if {'ara', 'heb', 'fas', 'per'} & set(options.languages):
+            log.info("Using sandwich renderer since there is an RTL language")
+            options.pdf_renderer = 'sandwich'
+        else:
+            options.pdf_renderer = 'hocr'
 
     if not tesseract.has_thresholding() and options.tesseract_thresholding != 0:
         log.warning(