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Ben McCann commented on PDFBOX-3019:
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Awesome, thank you for the fix! I tested it against my test suite and parsing
accuracy improved such that it was better than 1.8 or 2.0 without the fix.
Seems like we should commit the fix along with a test that tries to parse the
attached doc to avoid regressions.
> Optimize tolerance settings
> ---------------------------
>
> Key: PDFBOX-3019
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3019
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Text extraction
> Affects Versions: 2.0.0
> Reporter: Ben McCann
> Fix For: 2.0.0
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> Attachments: jbl-example-com.pdf
>
>
> From testing on my internal dataset I believe there might be some regression
> in the effectiveness of PDFTextStripper.
> Here's an [example
> doc|http://rampages.us/rhodesc1/wp-content/uploads/sites/4737/2014/07/Resume-Connor-Rhodes.pdf]
> I found on the web, which converted better in 1.8 than 2.0. Notice that it
> extracts "J e a n e t t e A c o s t a ; S e r v i c e M a n a g e r a t
> M a d F o x B r e w i n g C o m p a n y". It doesn't seem like there's
> very much space between the letters in the pdf, so it's curious to me that it
> didn't do too well.
> I realize this is an area where we probably can't strive for perfection. Yet,
> it does seem to me that from 1.8 to 2.0 we may have taken a step backwards. I
> believe there's some sort of regression test for PDFToImage which exports a
> set of pdfs to images at two different commits and looks at what the
> differences are. Do we have the same sort of thing for PDFTextStripper? If
> not, can we build one by pulling docs off the public web? I'd be willing to
> contribute to this endeavor.
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