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Maruan Sahyoun reopened PDFBOX-2998:
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reopening with different scope based on the discussion at the top of the ticket
> Enhance the text extraction capabilities
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> Key: PDFBOX-2998
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2998
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Text extraction
> Affects Versions: 2.0.0
> Reporter: Andreas Meier
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> PDFBox will need some -document layout analysis tools- enhancement to the
> current text extraction to extract text correctly.
> At the Moment the text of a document is extracted using the position of
> single characters.
> This may lead to wrong results, due to the format of the file.
> There are good tools such as https://code.google.com/p/lapdftext which we
> could use to compare our current output.
> Possible enhancements are
> - enhance matching of text to a certain line i.e. don't mix up text from
> different lines
> - better handling of rotated text
> - handling of vertical text
> - ability to get additional text properties such as font, font size ...
> Some of these are already logged as individual tickets
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