Merge pull request #1493 from BBC-Esq/main

fix ._hocr
2025-04-06 04:11:31 -04:00
parent d84c47816c 0970cebfea
commit 8b1443c482
1 changed files with 5 additions and 1 deletions
@@ -263,9 +263,13 @@ class HocrTransform:

    def _get_text_direction(self, par):
        """Get the text direction of the paragraph.
-
+    
        Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, are right-to-left languages.
+        When the paragraph element is None, defaults to left-to-right.
        """
+        if par is None:
+            return TextDirection.LTR
+            
        return (
            TextDirection.RTL
            if par.attrib.get('dir', 'ltr') == 'rtl'