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# Text Element

> The text element in Vantage OCR XML output contains text of a recognized text block or table cell: par child elements plus orientation and other attributes.

Text of a recognized text block or text of a table cell. Contains [par](/vantage/developer/output/xml/par-element) elements.

The tag can have the following attributes:

| Property      | Data type | Description                                                                                                                                       |
| :------------ | :-------- | :------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `orientation` | `string`  | The text orientation. Possible values: `Normal`, `RotatedClockwise`, `RotatedUpsidedown`, `RotatedCounterclockwise`. The default value is Normal. |
| `mirrored`    | `boolean` | Specifies whether the text is mirrored. The default value is false.                                                                               |
| `inverted`    | `boolean` | Specifies whether the text is inverted. The default value is false.                                                                               |