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[jira] [Commented] (PDFBOX-1648) FontBox can't load CMaps with no
spaces between tokens
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1648?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=14157965#comment-14157965 ]
Kevin Pearcey commented on PDFBOX-1648:
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This looks like a similar case to PDFBOX-2035, which further highlights that the CMap parser was only using whitespace as delimiters in some cases where in fact the full range of allowed PDF delimiter characters should be used.
I have updated the patch to the latest 1.8.9-SNAPSHOT and will attach it in the hope it may make it to the src, and we can stop patching every release we upgrade to.
> FontBox can't load CMaps with no spaces between tokens
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: PDFBOX-1648
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1648
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: FontBox
> Affects Versions: 1.7.0, 1.8.2
> Reporter: Max Gilead
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: patch, test
> Attachments: CMapNoWhitespace.txt, CMapWithWhitespace.txt, cmap-with-no-whitespace.patch
>
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> FontBox (tested versions 1.7.0 and 1.8.2) can't load CMap entries if they're not properly separated by whitespace making it problematic to extract the text from such PDFs. Test case and a proposed patch attached. The patch is tiny but in case it matters: it is in public domain, no credit necessary, please feel free to relicence it as you see fit.
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