Methods are marked as deprecated but they're effectively dead
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Key: PDFBOX-422
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-422
Project: PDFBox
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Text extraction
Affects Versions: 0.8.0-incubator
Reporter: Gustavo Hexsel
There are several methods on PDFTextStripper and PDFStreamEngine that are
marked @deprecated, but they are not really used by the existing infrastructure
anymore.
This would be ok if such methods weren't callbacks. In this case, it breaks
pre-existing code, and prevents the compiler from letting you know the methods
are not to be used anymore.
Simply removing the methods would have been a much better solution in this
case.
Example of said methods:
org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper#processLineSeparator
org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper#processWordSeparator
org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper#writeCharacters
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