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Tilman Hausherr commented on PDFBOX-4764:
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This isn't a bug. This is a text extraction tool and if there is no text, not
even blanks, then there is nothing to extract.
PDF isn't like HTML where there is a TABLE syntax. What you, as a human, see as
a "table" is just vector graphics.
If you want to extract tables, use products for that, e.g. Tabula. Or use
ExtractTextByArea with the coordinates of your table cells.
> When a PDF has table with blank entries in the column the stripper just
> ignores the column and moves to next field in the coulmn
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> Key: PDFBOX-4764
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-4764
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Text extraction
> Affects Versions: 2.0.8
> Reporter: karthik guns
> Priority: Major
>
> When a PDF has tables with columns with empty values,the stripper ignores the
> field and moves to next column which has records(if its blank it should
> capture)
>
> PDFTextStripperByArea stripper = new PDFTextStripperByArea();
> stripper.setSortByPosition(true);
> PDFTextStripper tStripper = new PDFTextStripper();
> String pdfFileInText = tStripper.getText(document);
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