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Andreas Lehmkühler commented on PDFBOX-1623:
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OK, I see. So we should introduce a switch to somehow skip those parts of the
text.
BTW, Acrobat reader does the same, it dumps the whole text including the hidden
one
> Can't detect hidden text on pdf page
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> Key: PDFBOX-1623
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1623
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Wish
> Components: Text extraction
> Affects Versions: 1.8.1
> Environment: windows java7
> Reporter: james king
> Attachments: test_hidden_text.pdf
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> Original Estimate: 24h
> Remaining Estimate: 24h
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> I trying to extract the text from the page , but it extract the hidden text
> also which i don't need. How can i detect it is hidden or not? Because in
> normal case the hidden text is the user don't want to extract!
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