[jira] [Closed] (PDFBOX-1919) Span tags are not implemented

["John Hewson (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1919?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

John Hewson closed PDFBOX-1919.
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    Resolution: Won't Fix

Closing as "won't fix", as it doesn't look like there's anything to fix here. If anyone is interested in extracting marked content, don't forget about PDFMarkedContentExtractor.

> Span tags are not implemented
> -----------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-1919
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1919
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Text extraction
>    Affects Versions: 1.8.5, 1.8.6, 2.0.0
>            Reporter: Corentin Regal
>         Attachments: PDFBOX-1919.AdobeReader.txt, PDFBOX-1919.pdf, PDFBOX-1919.txt
>
>
> The font descriptor flags are not set.
> They are described in the document "PDF reference 1.7" at : 5.7.1 Font Descriptor Flags
> The methods in PDFontDescriptor are ready but never called :
> setFlags()
> setSerif()
> setAllCap() which is used in a lot of PDF
> ...
> I saw some TODO that relate to that issue in the code, is it planned to be implemented soon?
> ---
> UPDATE: This issue turned out to be caused by span tags and how Adobe Acrobat handles copy & paste. Ultimately the PDF contains poor quality ToUnicode mappings and poor quality span tags, so there's no real fix.



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