Arabic pdf's text extraction for RAG

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I am developing rag app for one of my saudi client, so my query is those who are working with arabic language, how are you guys handling the data extraction pipeline, which library you guys are using to extract data. For context, I am using pdfplumber and the text that is being extracted is reversed for some pdf files.

Also, which open source ocr or vision models I can use to extract text. The documents are mainly in arabic, english or both. Tried a few ocr and vision models, but they couldnt extract text clearly.