[jira] [Commented] (PDFBOX-1886) Merge Function strips OCR layer in acrobat

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

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Tilman Hausherr commented on PDFBOX-1886:
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Why do you think that the OCR is missing? I can copy & paste text from the "santa-cruz-flats-project-part-2 (1).pdf" file.

> Merge Function strips OCR layer in acrobat
> ------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-1886
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1886
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Utilities
>    Affects Versions: 1.8.4
>            Reporter: adam brin
>             Fix For: 2.1.0
>
>         Attachments: cover_page4818280580458469287.pdf, page1.pdf, santa-cruz-flats-project-part-2 (1).pdf
>
>
> We use the PDFMergerUtility to add cover pages to documents automatically. We're finding that when we do so, it strips the OCR data from the source of the merged files.
> {code}
>         PDFMergerUtility merger = new PDFMergerUtility();
>         File outputFile = File.createTempFile();        merger.setDestinationStream(new FileOutputStream(outputFile));
>         for (File file : files) {
>             merger.addSource(file);
>         }
>         merger.mergeDocuments();
>         return outputFile;
> {code}



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