Arabic is reversed or disconnected in Photoshop or another app
Prepare text so it shows connected and in the right order in apps without Arabic support.
ARABIC, IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION
Free tools to fix and clean Arabic text
Paste your text and fix the problem in your browser: reversed Arabic in a design app, text copied from a PDF, diacritics to remove, Arabic-Indic digits or hidden characters. No sign-up, no uploads, and your original stays untouched.
Start from your problem
Text copied from a PDF is reversed or garbled
Turn it back into ordinary letters in the right order, and learn when you need OCR instead.
I need to remove the diacritics
Remove harakat, tanween and shadda while keeping hamza, and compare before you copy.
Digits show as ١٢٣ and I need 123
Convert Arabic-Indic and Persian digits to Western digits or back, with links protected.
I typed with the wrong keyboard layout: hgsghl ugd;l
Recover the intended text from the key positions between Arabic and English.
I need an amount written in Arabic words (tafqit)
Write numbers and KWD, SAR, AED or USD amounts in Arabic words.
Search cannot find a word that is clearly there
Normalise alef, yaa and taa marbuta in a search copy without changing your original.
A space will not delete or punctuation sits on the wrong side
Reveal hidden direction marks and spaces where they are, and remove only what you need.
Text written in Arabizi with 3 and 7
Convert Arabizi to Arabic letters, then review what needs fixing.
Text pasted from WhatsApp or Word is full of extra spaces and lines
Tidy spaces, line breaks and tatweel step by step, keeping the original.
I need a word and character count for Arabic text
Choose the counting method your teacher or client expects, and see words, characters, lines and reading time.
I need Arabic placeholder text for a design
Generate Arabic paragraphs with the word count you choose to test fonts, spacing and page direction.
All tools 19
Every tool is free and runs in the browser, with steps, real examples and its limits explained underneath.
Clean and fix
- Clean Arabic textRemove Arabic diacritics and tatweel, convert Arabic or Persian digits, and clean spacing. Compare changes and download your text locally for free.
- Fix reversed and disconnected Arabic textMake Arabic show connected and in the right order in apps without Arabic support, or repair reversed text copied from a PDF. Free, in your browser.
- Batch clean UTF-8 text filesClean locally, inspect each file’s outcome and download the results as a ZIP.
- Advanced find & replaceMatch case, whole words or a bounded cancellable regular expression. Preview before exporting.
Inspect and Unicode
- Find invisible characters in Arabic textInspect direction controls, joiners and invisible spaces with their exact positions. Your original stays intact.
- Arabic character explorerSearch letters, marks and punctuation. Inspect joining, direction and code points from Unicode 18.0.
- Arabic Unicode normalization: NFC & NFKCCompare NFC, NFD, NFKC and NFKD against your original. Encoding transformations, not linguistic correction.
Count and compare
Numbers
Type and convert
- Fix Arabic–English keyboard layoutConvert text typed with the wrong Arabic 101 or English QWERTY layout. Preview each change, protect links and undo without losing the original.
- Arabic keyboard & harakatInsert letters and vowel marks at your selection with accessible keys and undo.
- Arabizi & Buckwalter transliterationChoose a visible mapping, inspect each line and export a CSV. No missing vowels are inferred.
- Latin case & accent toolsChange Latin casing and selected accents or punctuation while preserving Arabic and emoji.
Lists, data and layout
- Filter, format & reorder linesFilter and deduplicate, then sort, wrap, number and add prefixes. Review removed lines.
- Merge & compare two listsUnion, intersection and differences with explicit matching and duplicate rules.
- Extract & reorder CSV columnsHandle quoted fields and embedded newlines, select columns and export safely.
- Arabic Lorem Ipsum generator: dummy Arabic textGenerate Arabic placeholder (dummy) text to use instead of Lorem Ipsum. Set paragraph and word counts for layout and Arabic font tests.
In-depth guides
Reversed Arabic · Invisible textArabic text reversed or disconnected in Photoshop and other appsWhy Arabic letters show up backwards and unjoined in Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects or Unity, how to turn on Arabic support, and when to pre-shape the text.Reversed Arabic · CleanerArabic text copied from a PDF is reversed or garbled: how to fix itCopied Arabic from a PDF and got backwards words, unjoined letters or gibberish? Identify the cause from what you pasted, repair it in your browser, or know when you need OCR.Invisible text · CleanerHidden characters in Arabic text: how to find and remove themPunctuation on the wrong side, a space that won't delete, names that won't match? Find hidden direction marks and zero-width characters, and remove only the harmful ones.Cleaner · LinesClean up Arabic text copied from WhatsApp, Word, PDFs and the webPasted Arabic full of double spaces, broken lines, tatweel and hidden marks? Follow this order in the Cleaner, change one thing at a time and check before you copy.Cleaner · CompareHow to remove Arabic diacritics (tashkeel) from textStrip Arabic harakat, tanween, shadda and sukun in your browser, see what stays (hamza, madda, Quranic marks) and learn when removing marks changes the meaning.Cleaner · CompareNormalize Arabic text for search and matchingWhy searching احمد misses أحمد and مدرسه misses مدرسة. Normalize alef, taa marbuta, alef maqsura and diacritics in a search copy and keep the original spelling.
All guides (11)How ArabicFix works
Runs in your browser
Processing happens on your device. The tools do not upload your text or files, and there is no account.
Privacy policyYour original stays intact
The result sits next to the original. Every change is an option you switch on, and you can undo it.
HelpClear rules, no guessing
The tools apply published rules and Unicode and CLDR data, and they state their limits plainly.
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