diff --git a/src-ui/src/app/components/document-detail/document-detail.component.html b/src-ui/src/app/components/document-detail/document-detail.component.html
index 0384de371..54ac665e0 100644
--- a/src-ui/src/app/components/document-detail/document-detail.component.html
+++ b/src-ui/src/app/components/document-detail/document-detail.component.html
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
                     <a ngbNavLink i18n>Content</a>
                     <ng-template ngbNavContent>
                         <div class="mb-3">
-                            <textarea class="form-control" id="content" rows="20" formControlName='content'></textarea>
+                            <textarea class="form-control" id="content" rows="20" formControlName='content' [class.rtl]="isRTL"></textarea>
                         </div>
                     </ng-template>
                 </li>
diff --git a/src-ui/src/app/components/document-detail/document-detail.component.scss b/src-ui/src/app/components/document-detail/document-detail.component.scss
index 3ae922564..71d50ca61 100644
--- a/src-ui/src/app/components/document-detail/document-detail.component.scss
+++ b/src-ui/src/app/components/document-detail/document-detail.component.scss
@@ -28,3 +28,7 @@
   left: 30%;
   right: 30%;
 }
+
+textarea.rtl {
+  direction: rtl;
+}
diff --git a/src-ui/src/app/components/document-detail/document-detail.component.ts b/src-ui/src/app/components/document-detail/document-detail.component.ts
index 08d0b0e82..f99f547e6 100644
--- a/src-ui/src/app/components/document-detail/document-detail.component.ts
+++ b/src-ui/src/app/components/document-detail/document-detail.component.ts
@@ -135,6 +135,13 @@ export class DocumentDetailComponent
       : this.metadata?.original_mime_type
   }
 
+  get isRTL() {
+    if (!this.metadata || !this.metadata.lang) return false
+    else {
+      return ['ar', 'he', 'fe'].includes(this.metadata.lang)
+    }
+  }
+
   ngOnInit(): void {
     this.documentForm.valueChanges
       .pipe(takeUntil(this.unsubscribeNotifier))
diff --git a/src-ui/src/app/data/paperless-document-metadata.ts b/src-ui/src/app/data/paperless-document-metadata.ts
index 152f69046..b8c030ee8 100644
--- a/src-ui/src/app/data/paperless-document-metadata.ts
+++ b/src-ui/src/app/data/paperless-document-metadata.ts
@@ -10,4 +10,6 @@ export interface PaperlessDocumentMetadata {
   original_filename?: string
 
   has_archive_version?: boolean
+
+  lang?: string
 }
diff --git a/src/documents/views.py b/src/documents/views.py
index e313ae17e..52b230b40 100644
--- a/src/documents/views.py
+++ b/src/documents/views.py
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ from django.views.decorators.cache import cache_control
 from django.views.generic import TemplateView
 from django_filters.rest_framework import DjangoFilterBackend
 from documents.tasks import consume_file
+from langdetect import detect
 from packaging import version as packaging_version
 from paperless import version
 from paperless.db import GnuPG
@@ -325,6 +326,13 @@ class DocumentViewSet(
             "original_filename": doc.original_filename,
         }
 
+        lang = "en"
+        try:
+            lang = detect(doc.content)
+        except Exception:
+            pass
+        meta["lang"] = lang
+
         if doc.has_archive_version:
             meta["archive_size"] = self.get_filesize(doc.archive_path)
             meta["archive_metadata"] = self.get_metadata(