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Merijn Wijngaard commented on PDFBOX-1351: ------------------------------------------ This problem still persists in pdfbox 1.8.7. Using superscript doesn't sound like a rare use case to me, so it would be nice if this could be fixed. Inlining the superscript for text output seems like the best solution to me. > False paragraph caused by superscript (1.7 regression) > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: PDFBOX-1351 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1351 > Project: PDFBox > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Text extraction > Affects Versions: 1.7.0 > Reporter: Daniel Bonniot de Ruisselet > Attachments: PDFParaTest.java, superscript.pdf > > > On the attached minimal example document, text extraction seems to be > confused by the superscript, and generates three paragraphs where there is > only one. > Note that 1.6 is processing this case well: > {noformat} > $ java -jar /dev/shm/pdfbox-app-1.6.0.jar ExtractText /tmp/superscript.pdf > Jun 29, 2012 4:52:24 PM org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser parseObject > WARNING: expected='%%EOF' actual='5 0 obj ' > $ cat /tmp/superscript.txt > > Multiple synthetic routes have been described by R. Filler et al.11 regarding > 1,3- > Bis(perfluorophenyl)propane-1,3-dione. The synthesis and > > > $ java -jar /dev/shm/pdfbox-app-1.7.0.jar ExtractText /tmp/superscript.pdf > Jun 29, 2012 4:52:39 PM org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser parseObject > WARNING: expected='%%EOF' actual='5 0 obj ' > $ cat /tmp/superscript.txt > > Multiple synthetic routes have been described by R. Filler et al. > 11 > regarding 1,3- > Bis(perfluorophenyl)propane-1,3-dione. The synthesis and > > > {noformat} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)