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Tilman Hausherr commented on PDFBOX-5857:
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There is a solution in PDFBOX-3970 but it requires a change in PDFBox itself,
and it isn't perfect, i.e. some files will look worse.
> PDFTextStripper returns messed up data
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> Key: PDFBOX-5857
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-5857
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Text extraction
> Affects Versions: 3.0.2 PDFBox
> Reporter: arjunce
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: extractedText.txt, jumbledtext.pdf, screenshot-1.png
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> I have attached below the input pdf and its text output for you to take a
> look at. I am using PDFTextStripper along with these:
> {code:java}
> super();
> this.setSortByPosition(true);
> this.setWordSeparator("_word_"); {code}
> Since I am using sort by position the text is jumbled. Is there a way for me
> to detect this instead of outputting the jumbled text? Any help is
> appreciated, Thanks.
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