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[jira] [Comment Edited] (PDFBOX-5018) Wrong extraction of blank character

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-5018?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=17233867#comment-17233867 ] 

Tilman Hausherr edited comment on PDFBOX-5018 at 11/17/20, 7:17 PM:
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The effect is only when sorting. Seems the order is undefined when the positions are identical.


was (Author: tilman):
The effect is only when sorting. Seems the result is undefined when the positions are identical.

> Wrong extraction of blank character
> -----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-5018
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-5018
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Text extraction
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.21
>            Reporter: Marco Barbi
>            Priority: Major
>         Attachments: IT00820340966_Z-SO-PO 5270213 (1).pdf, image-2020-11-17-11-19-45-132.png
>
>
> Applying the PDFTextStripper to the attached PDF Document, a not-existing blank character is read in the following text:
>  
> !image-2020-11-17-11-19-45-132.png!
>  
> Instead of "O1AI7A" the text supplied to the writeString method callback is "O 1AI7A".
> Making copy&paste from Adobe Reader doesn't introduce any blank character.
>  



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