Matthias Bösinger created PDFBOX-2548:
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Summary: problems with character extraction (OpenType, dense
printed Text)
Key: PDFBOX-2548
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2548
Project: PDFBox
Issue Type: Test
Components: Text extraction
Affects Versions: 1.8.7
Environment: Windows JavaSE8 Eclipse
Reporter: Matthias Bösinger
Priority: Minor
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I have a pdf document whose font type is OpenType (Garamond OpenType). So the
pdfBox text extraction can also extract special characters (for example small
capital lettres), which caused problems when the underlying font has been a
simple Type1 font.
However, the text extraction now causes another type of problem. In my case,
when the charater sequences "fi" or "fl" occur in the text, the
PDFTextStripper#getText(PDDocument doc) extracts them as single characters: 'fi'
and 'fl' and sets a space character on their right side.
(Surprisingly, if I access the list of characters of a page via the
charactersByArticle field of PDFTextStripper / via the
PDFTextStripper#processText(TextPosition pos) method, the same characters show
up as 'normal-single' characters f i / f l).
My assumption is that the advantage of the underlying OpenFont type turns into
this particular disadvantage, because the PDFTextStripper recognizes the
character sequence f i / f l as special charcters fi / fl (- what might have to
do with the fact, that the getText() method calculates things like whitespace
characters by distances / positional placements).
Background: The given document is a wordbook text with very dense printed text.
My question: is there anything what I can do to avoid this problem?
thanks in advance ...
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