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Andreas Lehmkühler commented on PDFBOX-521:
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Mel, thanks for the detailed review. 

I obviously introduced some new issues. I'm still trying to sort all the 
details out. I've started with a bugfix for the static initializer block in 
revision 1039583.

The next thing should be a bugfix for the wrong calculation of the maxHeight 
value.

> Improved PDF Text Extraction that notes paragraph boundaries
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-521
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-521
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Parsing
>    Affects Versions: 0.8.0-incubator
>         Environment: all
>            Reporter: Mel Martinez
>            Assignee: Andreas Lehmkühler
>         Attachments: pdftextstripper2.zip
>
>
> The current behavior of the org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper class is 
> to ignore paragraph demarcation in the text.  It basically just renders each 
> line of text as it discovers it, separating each line equally with the same 
> line separator.
> This makes it difficult to identify paragraph (or even page) starts and stops 
> in the extracted text.  This is often necessary for text processing that 
> needs to work with logical 'chunks' of text.  Further, rendering into other 
> formats (such as HTML or XML) is facilitated by resolving the document into 
> more discrete logical text chunks.
> The request here is for improved text extraction that provides more discrete 
> instrumentation of the parsing, allowing one to identify / tag paragraph 
> starts and stops.

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