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Dominik Bauer commented on PDFBOX-3680:
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I use Apache-Tika 1.13 to extract the Text from the pdf. There is a
configuration Class, which lets me set the sortByPosition flag for pdfbox, but
the comment on the flag is irritating me.
{code:title=PDFParserConfig.java}
// True if we should sort text tokens by position
// (necessary for some PDFs, but messes up other PDFs):
private boolean sortByPosition = false;
{code}
*Does this option in pdfbox really mess up the texts?*
> Extracted text in wrong order [header, footer, content]
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>
> Key: PDFBOX-3680
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3680
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Text extraction
> Affects Versions: 2.0.1
> Reporter: Dominik Bauer
> Attachments: 1_to_3_Text.txt, DSG 2000, Fassung vom 27.01.2017.pdf
>
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> When I extract the text from the attached pdf, the text is in the wrong
> order.
> Every page has a header, which is "Bundesrecht konsolidiert" some content and
> a footer, which is "www.ris.bka.gv.at Seite x von y". The content of the
> footer is a URL and the page number in German language.
> In my eyes the extracted text should have the same order, as we would look at
> it. The correct order would be header, content, footer.
> When I open the File in Adobe Reader an copy the text from the page, the text
> is also in the same order.
> The extracted text is:
> {quote}
> Bundesrecht konsolidiert
> www.ris.bka.gv.at Seite 1 von 35
> Gesamte Rechtsvorschrift [...] und Rechtsnachfolge
> {quote}
> When we look at the page; then the extracted text should be:
> {quote}
> Bundesrecht konsolidiert
> Gesamte Rechtsvorschrift [...] und Rechtsnachfolge
> www.ris.bka.gv.at Seite 1 von 35
> {quote}
> The pdf itself and the extracted text of the first three pages is attached to
> this Ticket.
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