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

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

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Tilman Hausherr commented on PDFBOX-5487:
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What version did you use? If the latest (2.0.26) then this is something we won't be able to fix soon, sadly. There are related issues, e.g. PDFBOX-5029 and PDFBOX-4531 (in that one I mentioned where to look).

> extra whitespaces when extracting Arabic text
> ---------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-5487
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-5487
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Fatemeh Elyasi
>            Priority: Major
>         Attachments: Malpass-at-the-G7-Leaders-Summit-Media-Briefing-AR.pdf
>
>
> 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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