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Andreas Lehmkühler closed PDFBOX-588.
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Resolution: Fixed
Fix Version/s: 1.5.0
I just realized that the sample code extracts one page after the other using
the startPage/endPage feature, which leads to a lot of overhead as the
PDFTextStripper iterates over all pages for each single page extraction. Let me
explain it using some simple figures:
- the extraction of the whole text took 8 sec without any options but the
"-sort"
- the extraction of a single page took 0,4 sec using "-sort -startPage 200
-endPage 200"
- assuming that the extraction for each page took the same time (for the sake
of convenience) leads to: 1310 (pages) * 0,4 sec (time per page) = 524 sec
IMHO that's the explanation for Heshams issue.
Set to closed as we didn't get any more input for more than 2 years.
Thanks to all for your help.
> Problem extracting text in newline characters
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> Key: PDFBOX-588
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-588
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Text extraction
> Affects Versions: 0.8.0-incubator, 1.3.1, 1.4.0
> Environment: Win XP
> Reporter: Hesham
> Assignee: Andreas Lehmkühler
> Fix For: 1.5.0
>
> Attachments: Enters-sample.pdf, PDFBOX588-Enters-sample1.png,
> PDFBOX588-Enters-sample1.png, PDFBOX588-Enters-sample.txt,
> PDFTextStripper.patch
>
>
> Hello ,
>
> I have a PDF file with 1 page only, when I try to extract its text using :
> String pageData = stripper.getText( pdfFile );
> It ignores some Enter characters between lines, so the last word in the line
> and the first word in the next line appear as 1 word without spaces between
> them !!
> While if I copy the PDF text manually from the PDF and paste it in a text
> editor, Enter characters appear after the same lines that caused the problem
> in PDFBox.
> Please check the attached file as a sample.
>
> Is there a way to fix this ?
>
> Best regards ,
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