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[jira] [Resolved] (PDFBOX-5487) extra whitespaces when extracting Arabic text

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-5487?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Tilman Hausherr resolved PDFBOX-5487.
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    Fix Version/s: 2.0.33
                   3.0.4 PDFBox
                   4.0.0
         Assignee: Tilman Hausherr
       Resolution: Fixed

Thank you [~Fatima_E] for the report and [~noureldin] for the feedback.

There will probably be more upcoming changes re: spaces, another user is planning to contribute something soon, I'll ping you so we don't mess up anything. However I'm also keeping your file in my local test repository.

> extra whitespaces when extracting Arabic text
> ---------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-5487
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-5487
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Text extraction
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.32, 3.0.3 PDFBox
>            Reporter: Fatemeh Elyasi
>            Assignee: Tilman Hausherr
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: Arabic
>             Fix For: 2.0.33, 3.0.4 PDFBox, 4.0.0
>
>         Attachments: Malpass-at-the-G7-Leaders-Summit-Media-Briefing-AR (withoutFixes).txt, Malpass-at-the-G7-Leaders-Summit-Media-Briefing-AR.pdf, Malpass-at-the-G7-Leaders-Summit-Media-Briefing-AR.txt, PDFBOX-3774-reduced.pdf-sorted-diff.txt, PDFBOX-5487-arabic.pdf-sorted-diff.txt, PDFBOX-5487_ اعلامية.png, PDFBOX-5487_ وفضلا.png, arabtest.pdf, meld1.png, meld2.png, meld3.png, screenshot-1.png
>
>
> trying to extract text from an arabic PDF. You may notice that some of whitespaces are extracted in wrong place.
> Example:
> Original word: العالمية
> Extracted word: العالمي ة
>  
> Pdf is attached, the example word is on the first line.



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