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Tilman Hausherr commented on PDFBOX-3749:
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I was tired yesterday... today it looks to me as if you made an observation,
and expect that this observation became a feature, which it isn't. The javadoc
just mentions getting a string. There is not even a guarantee (unless you use
the sort option) that the glyphs come in a certain order. Some PDFs with
columns have their glyphs ordered by line in a column, some by line, so it is
not even sure that the output is always the best possible.
What you might do, is to create a copy of PDFTextStripper and make writeLine
public and see if that does what you need.
> void writeString(String text, List<TextPosition> textPositions) is not called
> per line
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> Key: PDFBOX-3749
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3749
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 2.0.4
> Environment: Windows 10 64-bit
> Reporter: Harun Reşit Zafer
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: extraction, style
> Attachments: contract_00105_SEDAR-marked-1.png,
> contract_00105_SEDAR.pdf, helloworld-marked-1.png, helloworld.pdf
>
>
> We overwrote the {{void writeString(String text, List<TextPosition>
> textPositions)}} method of the {{PDFTextStripper}} to extract additional
> position and style information from the PDFs. We thought this method would be
> called per line and the elements of the parameter {{List<TextPosition>
> textPositions}} would be all the letters, including the spaces in a line.
> This is indeed the case for thousands of the documents. However, one
> particular document, this is not the case and the {{textPositions}} contains
> just the letters of a word and {{writeString}} is called per word.
> I am not sure if this would be counted as a bug because the final extracted
> text is not affected.
> The problematic PDF is attached.
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