Ben McCann created PDFBOX-3019:
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Summary: Optimize tolerance settings
Key: PDFBOX-3019
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3019
Project: PDFBox
Issue Type: Bug
Affects Versions: 2.0.0
Reporter: Ben McCann
Fix For: 2.0.0
>From testing on my internal dataset I believe there might be some regression
>in the effectiveness of PDFTextStripper.
Here's an [example
doc|http://rampages.us/rhodesc1/wp-content/uploads/sites/4737/2014/07/Resume-Connor-Rhodes.pdf]
I found on the web, which converted better in 1.8 than 2.0. Notice that it
extracts "J e a n e t t e A c o s t a ; S e r v i c e M a n a g e r a t M
a d F o x B r e w i n g C o m p a n y". It doesn't seem like there's very
much space between the letters in the pdf, so it's curious to me that it didn't
do too well.
I realize this is an area where we probably can't strive for perfection. Yet,
it does seem to me that from 1.8 to 2.0 we may have taken a step backwards. I
believe there's some sort of regression test for PDFToImage which exports a set
of pdfs to images at two different commits and looks at what the differences
are. Do we have the same sort of thing for PDFTextStripper? If not, can we
build one by pulling docs off the public web? I'd be willing to contribute to
this endeavor.
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