[jira] [Issue Comment Deleted] (PDFBOX-4313) PDFTextStripper groups unrelated chunks into words

["Paul Slootweg (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-4313?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Paul Slootweg updated PDFBOX-4313:
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(was: I am currently seeing a similar problem - in this case a line of bold text has a line of standard text below it and places the second line as part of the first.

This looks to be because it is using the bold font height to compare the overlap for the standard line.

Unfortunately at this point I can't provide a failing PDF, but I will try to see if I can.)

> PDFTextStripper groups unrelated chunks into words
> --------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-4313
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-4313
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Text extraction
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.11
>            Reporter: Emilian Bold
>            Assignee: Andreas Lehmkühler
>            Priority: Major
>         Attachments: 1536938716546.pdf, PDFBOX-4313-Test.pdf, PDFBOX-4313-Test_sorted.txt, PDFBOX-4313-Test_unsorted.txt, PDFBOX-4313.pdf, PDFBOX4313Test.java, PDFBOX4313Test.java, crop-fisa-sintetica.png, pdfbox-words.png
>
>
> I have the text "10" and "11" and they get merged into to "1110" word.
> Coordinates are:
> 1 575.36 x 227.4 w 4.447998 h 5.736
> 1 579.752 x 227.4 w 4.447998 h 5.736
> 1 526.2 x 227.4 w 4.447998 h 5.736
> 0 530.59204 x 227.4 w 4.447998 h 5.736
> The bug is in in this PDFTextStripper chunk:
> {{
>                    // test if our TextPosition starts after a new word would be expected to start
>                     if (expectedStartOfNextWordX != EXPECTED_START_OF_NEXT_WORD_X_RESET_VALUE
>                             && expectedStartOfNextWordX < positionX &&
>                             // only bother adding a space if the last character was not a space
>                             lastPosition.getTextPosition().getUnicode() != null
>                             && !lastPosition.getTextPosition().getUnicode().endsWith(" "))
>                     {
>                         line.add(LineItem.getWordSeparator());
>                     }
> }}
> which seems to add a word separator only if the next char is "after" the current word. It never expects that the next char might be "before" the current word.
> I guess this could also be framed as a RTL problem, but the PDF is a plain PDF, it just seems that Oracle Reports generates these chunks in the reverse order.



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