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Andreas Lehmkühler reassigned PDFBOX-1874:
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Assignee: Andreas Lehmkühler
> PDFTextStripper.isParagraphSeparation(...)
> ------------------------------------------
>
> Key: PDFBOX-1874
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1874
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Text extraction
> Affects Versions: 1.8.3
> Environment: Eclipse
> Reporter: Yuri Burrows
> Assignee: Andreas Lehmkühler
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: patch
>
> PDFTextStripper.isParagraphSeparation(...) seems to have an issue with how it
> finds Y text indentation.
> PROBLEM:
> I believe the issue is due to precision in the the following logic:
> float yGap = Math.abs(position.getTextPosition().getYDirAdj()-
> lastPosition.getTextPosition().getYDirAdj());
> float xGap = (position.getTextPosition().getXDirAdj()-
> lastLineStartPosition.getTextPosition().getXDirAdj());
> if(yGap > (getDropThreshold()*maxHeightForLine))
> {
> result = true;
> yGap has a precision to 1000th+, while (getDropThreshold()*maxHeightForLine)
> has a precision to 100,000th. Resulting in the following comparison (example):
> 16.018 > 16.018005
> which evaluates to "True". However 16.018 > 16.018 would evaluate to "False".
> EFFECT OF THE PROBLEM:
> every line in the output is marked as "isParagraphStart = true" and
> "writeParagraphEnd() ... = true".
> I.E.
> |||NEW_LINE|||
> |||PARAGRAPH_START|||PDFBox has been designed to represent PDF documents
> using familiar object-oriented paradigms. The data|||NEW_LINE|||
> contained in a PDF document is a collection of basic object types: arrays,
> booleans, dictionaries, numbers,|||NEW_LINE|||
> |||PARAGRAPH_END||||||NEW_LINE|||
> |||PARAGRAPH_START|||strings and binary streams. PDFBox captures these basic
> object types in the org.pdfbox.cos package (the|||NEW_LINE|||
> COS Model). While it's possible to create any desired interactions with a PDF
> document using only these|||NEW_LINE|||
> |||PARAGRAPH_END||||||NEW_LINE|||
> In the source PDF these lines appear as such:
> "PDFBox has been designed to represent PDF documents using familiar
> object-oriented paradigms. The data
> contained in a PDF document is a collection of basic object types: arrays,
> booleans, dictionaries, numbers,
> strings and binary streams. PDFBox captures these basic object types in the
> org.pdfbox.cos package (the
> COS Model). While it's possible to create any desired interactions with a PDF
> document using only these"
> MY WORKAROUND:
> NOTE: there is a small performance hit with this workaround.
> float yGap = Math.abs(position.getTextPosition().getYDirAdj()
> - lastPosition.getTextPosition().getYDirAdj());
>
> DecimalFormat df = new DecimalFormat("#.00");
> float yGapTruncated = Float.valueOf(df.format(yGap));
>
> float newYVal = Float.valueOf(df.format(getDropThreshold()
> * maxHeightForLine));
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