---
title: RecognizedTextObservation.Direction
framework: vision
role: symbol
role_heading: Enumeration
path: vision/recognizedtextobservation/direction
---

# RecognizedTextObservation.Direction

An enum representing which direction the text is read.

## Declaration

```swift
enum Direction
```

## Topics

### Directions

- [RecognizedTextObservation.Direction.leftToRight](vision/recognizedtextobservation/direction/lefttoright.md)
- [RecognizedTextObservation.Direction.rightToLeft](vision/recognizedtextobservation/direction/righttoleft.md)
- [RecognizedTextObservation.Direction.topToBottom](vision/recognizedtextobservation/direction/toptobottom.md)

## Relationships

### Conforms To

- [Decodable](swift/decodable.md)
- [Encodable](swift/encodable.md)
- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [Sendable](swift/sendable.md)
- [SendableMetatype](swift/sendablemetatype.md)

## See Also

### Inspecting an observation

- [boundingRegion](vision/recognizedtextobservation/boundingregion.md)
- [isTitle](vision/recognizedtextobservation/istitle.md)
- [recognitionLanguages](vision/recognizedtextobservation/recognitionlanguages.md)
- [shouldWrapToNextLine](vision/recognizedtextobservation/shouldwraptonextline.md)
- [textDirection](vision/recognizedtextobservation/textdirection.md)
- [transcript](vision/recognizedtextobservation/transcript.md)