removeArabicNumericPageMarkers()

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Overview

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Signature

removeArabicNumericPageMarkers(text: string): string

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Parameters

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Returns

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Behavior

• Matches Arabic numerals (٠-٩) enclosed in ⦗ ⦘ brackets
• Removes up to two preceding whitespace characters (space or \r)
• Removes up to one following whitespace character
• Replaces the entire match with a single space
• Uses the pattern: /(?: |\r){0,2}⦗[\u0660-\u0669]+⦘(?: |\r)?/g

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Example

import { removeArabicNumericPageMarkers } from 'shamela';

const text = 'النص الأول ⦗١٢٣⦘ النص الثاني ⦗٤٥٦⦘ النص الثالث';
const cleaned = removeArabicNumericPageMarkers(text);

console.log(cleaned);
// => "النص الأول  النص الثاني  النص الثالث"

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Arabic Numerals

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Use Cases

• Clean display text - Remove page markers before displaying to users
• Search preparation - Remove markers before indexing for search
• Text analysis - Clean text for linguistic analysis
• Export formatting - Remove markers when exporting to other formats

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Processing Order

import {
  mapPageCharacterContent,
  removeTagsExceptSpan,
  removeArabicNumericPageMarkers,
  parseContentRobust,
} from 'shamela';

// 1. Normalize characters
let content = mapPageCharacterContent(rawContent);

// 2. Remove unwanted tags
content = removeTagsExceptSpan(content);

// 3. Remove page markers
content = removeArabicNumericPageMarkers(content);

// 4. Parse into structured lines
const lines = parseContentRobust(content);

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Related Functions

• mapPageCharacterContent() - General character normalization
• removeTagsExceptSpan() - HTML tag removal