Normally are one or more pictures. These are seen from the front, and NOT the soldside. Look at the example below. The first is a female connector and the send a male. The texts inside parentheses will tell you at which kind of the device it will look like that.
Texts describing the connectors Below the pictures there is texts that describes the connectors.
Including the name of the physical connector. 25 PIN D-SUB MALE to the Serialcable. The pin table is perhaps the information you are looking for. It should be quite simple to read. Sometimes when not the same pin is connected to each side there is another column describing the name at connector 2.