Snippet for writing Persian or other RTL langs on image with Python PIL

RTL_text_on_image.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#!/usr/bin/env python3

import PIL
from PIL import ImageFont, Image, ImageDraw
from bidi.algorithm import get_display
import arabic_reshaper


def rtl_fix(text):
    # some magic happens here and makes RTL drawing fixed
    reshaped_name = arabic_reshaper.reshape(text)
    return get_display(reshaped_name)



daniel = "دانیال"
fixed_name = rtl_fix(daniel)

x_y_pos = (1, 2)
color = (0, 0, 0)  # black

yekan_font = ImageFont.truetype("./Yekan.ttf", 80)

draw = ImageDraw.Draw(Image.open("./sample.jpg"))

draw.text(fixed_name, x_y_pos, color, font=yekan_font)

img.show()

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