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Andreas Lehmkühler commented on PDFBOX-1542:
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OK, I see your problem. Pdfs don't contain any white characters like spaces,
line breaks etc. in most cases. You have to insert those yourself. To do so
compare the coordinates of each textchunk and decide if a white char has to be
added or not (it's not that simple as it sounds). That's what the
PDFTextStripper does.
> Whitespaces between words are not created
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> Key: PDFBOX-1542
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1542
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Wish
> Components: Text extraction
> Affects Versions: 1.7.1
> Reporter: Vitalie Bureanu
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: Parser.java
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> Original Estimate: 1h
> Remaining Estimate: 1h
>
> Hello, I extract the text with PDFBox from PDF files. I noticed that
> extraction of text from some pdf files are not so good as expected. I have a
> seria of pdf invoices from which I try to extract the text with coordinates
> and resultat is pretty well, but I noticed very strange thing: when I extract
> text - the words are extracted without whitespaces bettween. Example: if I
> try to extract "Unit Price" the result is "UnitPrice".
> But if I open the invoice in Adobe Reader and make "Copy/Past" into
> Notepad... I have the "Unit Price" with whitespaces!
> I think the whitespaces are not present in original pdf document... but the
> Adobe Reader in some way "insert" whitespaces between words when it show
> content of the pdf.
>
> Guys, can you please suggest me how I can have the strings with spaces after
> the parsing?
> See example of invoice here: http://www.cloudforpeople.com/Invoice1.pdf
> PS: I want to try the 1.8.0. version of PDFBox - how I can download it?
> Many thanks,
> Vitalie
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