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Andreas Lehmkühler commented on PDFBOX-582:
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The given example contains an inverted imagemap which has to be taken into 
amount when calculating the colormodel. With version 930910 I've added a patch 
with a similar approach than used for PDFBOX-672.


> Ignoring text over images
> -------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-582
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-582
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Text extraction, Utilities
>    Affects Versions: 0.8.0-incubator
>            Reporter: Villu Ruusmann
>         Attachments: PageDrawer.patch, PDFBOX582-pg_00051.png, pg_0005.pdf, 
> pg_0005.png
>
>
> Scientific publishers often publish older articles (year 2000 and earlier) in 
> scanned form. However, sometimes they seem to have conducted OCR, and added 
> the recovered text as an overlay in order to give the end user a "native PDF" 
> feeling in a sense that it is possible to copy and paste text.
> PDFBox differs from other PDF viewers (tested with Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0, 
> Foxit Reader 3.1, iText 2.1) so that it tries to render both the image part 
> and the textual overlay part, which may produce confusing results.
> Actually, there are two separate cases:
> *) Page rendering (class org.apache.pdfbox.pdfviewer.PageDrawer): Render the 
> image part and ignore the text part.
> *) Text extraction (class org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper): Ignore the 
> image part and work upon the text part.

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