[jira] [Commented] (PDFBOX-4764) When a PDF has table with blank entries in the column the stripper just ignores the column and moves to next field in the coulmn

["Tilman Hausherr (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Tilman Hausherr commented on PDFBOX-4764:
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This isn't a bug. This is a text extraction tool and if there is no text, not even blanks, then there is nothing to extract.

PDF isn't like HTML where there is a TABLE syntax. What you, as a human, see as a "table" is just vector graphics.

If you want to extract tables, use products for that, e.g. Tabula. Or use ExtractTextByArea with the coordinates of your table cells.

> When a PDF has table with blank entries in the column the stripper just ignores the column and moves to next field in the coulmn
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-4764
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-4764
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Text extraction
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.8
>            Reporter: karthik guns
>            Priority: Major
>
> When a PDF has tables with columns with empty values,the stripper ignores the field and moves to next column which has records(if its blank it should capture)
>  
> PDFTextStripperByArea stripper = new PDFTextStripperByArea();
>  stripper.setSortByPosition(true);
> PDFTextStripper tStripper = new PDFTextStripper();
> String pdfFileInText = tStripper.getText(document);



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