I’ve seen this before on a few documents. You might experiment with setting
PDFParserConfig’s suppressDuplicateOverlappingText to true. If that doesn’t
work, I’d recommend running the pure PDFBox app’s ExtractText on the document.
If you get the same doubling of letters, ask over on
u...@pdfbox.apache.org<mailto:u...@pdfbox.apache.org>. If you don’t, let us
know!
Best,
Tim
From: Mohammad Ghufran [mailto:emghuf...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 8:37 AM
To: user@tika.apache.org
Subject: Problem with content extraction
Hello,
I am using tika to extract content of documents using tika but I've run into a
problem. In some documents, the characters in the output are repeated several
times. For example, while processing a PDF file, the text "FORMATION" is
transformed into "FFOORRMMAATTIIOONN" and so on.
I tried looking through the mailing lists but didn't find any reference to
this. I also tried with the latest version of tika but it results in the same
output.
The only thing i can notice is that the document seems to have text written
with some shadow - if it is useful.
I would like to know if someone has encountered this problem before and what
are the possible solutions, if any.
Best Regards,
Ghufran
