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Tilman Hausherr commented on PDFBOX-4293:
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Yes that's the way it is… we don't fill blanks. You should use
ExtractTextByArea if you know the coordinates, or use a product like Tabula.
> PDFBox does not align "columns" properly
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>
> Key: PDFBOX-4293
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-4293
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Text extraction
> Affects Versions: 2.0.11
> Environment: Windows 7 64
> Reporter: Rens Huizenga
> Priority: Blocker
> Attachments: PDFconversieTekst CONVERTIO.txt, PDFconversieTekst.pdf,
> PDFconversieTekst.pdf.txt, PDFconversieTekst.xlsx
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>
> I have to convert Pdf's to database data. I developed a parser that reads
> .txt files. The original data is available in PDFs only . Therefore .txt
> files will have to be created by Tika converting the PDF's to .txt. After
> conversion I recognise an alignment issue with the .txt data compared to the
> columns in the PDF. On the TIKA website I read that I need to check if the
> problems also occurs in PDFBox, so I checked for that. PDFBox has the same
> issue.
> These lines of PDF data:
> a b c d e
> a b c d e
> are both presented as
> a b c d e
> in the text file, causing for example numbers to be presented in the wrong
> "column".
> Unfortunately I cannot share busniess documents, but i have created an
> example in Excel, saved it as PDF and converted it to .txt. See attachments.
> In addition I converted the testset online with Convertio.co. Their results
> is as expected, with enough spaces between the words/numbers to recognise the
> column.
>
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