[jira] Updated: (TIKA-584) Tika parse of some PDF files removes all spaces between words

["Ajay Vohra (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-584?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Ajay Vohra updated TIKA-584:
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    Attachment: JavaEE6Tutorial.pdf

Please try to parse this attached PDF file with example code below and the resulting extracted text contains no spaces:

public class TestTikaExtractor {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		try {
			Tika tika = new Tika();
			Metadata metadata = new Metadata();
			Reader reader = tika.parse(new FileInputStream(args[0]), metadata);
			
			if(metadata != null) {
				String[] names = metadata.names();
				for(int i=0; i < names.length; i++) {
					System.out.print("Metadata: host:"+ names[i] + ":"+ metadata.isMultiValued(names[i])+  "[" );
					
					String[] values = metadata.getValues(names[i]);
					
					for(int j=0; j < values.length; j++) {
						System.out.print(values[j]);
					}
					
					System.out.println( "]" );
					
				}
			}
			
			PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(new File(args[1]));
			char[]  cbuf = new char[1024];
			int nread = 0;
			while((nread = reader.read(cbuf, 0, cbuf.length)) > 0) {
				pw.print(new String(cbuf, 0, nread));
			}
			
			
			
		} catch (Exception e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}
}

> Tika parse of some PDF files removes all spaces between words
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: TIKA-584
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-584
>             Project: Tika
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 0.8
>         Environment: Windows XP 3, OpenSuse 11.2
>            Reporter: Ajay Vohra
>         Attachments: JavaEE6Tutorial.pdf
>
>
> In the case of some pdf files (not all), when Tika.parse(InputStream) method is used, the content extracted from the returned reader has all spaces removed. This only happens for some PDF files: An example where this happens is: JavaEE6Tutorial.pdf (available from Oracle). There are many such files where this bug can be seen. I have even tried Tika snapshot 0.9 and the bug remains.
> When PDFTextStripper is directly used, the extracted content is correct, with the spaces between words retained.

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