[jira] [Created] (PDFBOX-2463) ExtractTextByArea mangling second half of this string - transposed, skipped, etc

["Joel Hirsh (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Joel Hirsh created PDFBOX-2463:
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             Summary: ExtractTextByArea mangling second half of this string - transposed, skipped, etc
                 Key: PDFBOX-2463
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2463
             Project: PDFBox
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Text extraction
    Affects Versions: 1.8.7
            Reporter: Joel Hirsh


PDF snippet is being completely mangled by ExtractTextByArea.  Have a large PDF file where this is happening on every line.  

Visually (and Acrobat) show the text:
12 Jun EP COPY WORKS LIMITED 503646200256 5637 3.70 11,252.49 OD

However ExtractTextByArea comes up with:
12 Jun EP COPY WORKS LIMITED 503646200256 35 .6 70
11,
3 257 2.49
OD

So the first half of the string is ok, but starting at '5637' characters are skipped, other characters are inserted, completely mangled.

FWIW I did dump the COSString's in PDFStreamEngine and the strings all show correctly, nothing unusual.

Test file to be attached.



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