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John Hewson commented on PDFBOX-3028:
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Does anyone know if it's because that's a really screwy pdf or if it's because
there's some bug in the way we calculate the width of a space?
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I couldn't say but PDFont#getSpaceWidth() has some pretty questionable
behaviour such as assuming char 32 is a space and using the average font width
as a fallback. (0.25em would be a far better fallback),
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sometimes a space is an actual unicode character for a space and sometimes it's
just two characters not being near each other?
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Yes, documents generated using LaTeX are a good example of the latter.
> Text extraction broken for jbl example
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> Key: PDFBOX-3028
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3028
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Text extraction
> Affects Versions: 2.0.0
> Reporter: Ben McCann
> Attachments: jbl-example-com.pdf, spacing-test.patch
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