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Michael Klink commented on PDFBOX-4764:
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*A)* For sensible answers in the context of such questions please don't merely
show pasted text examples, also share the source PDF and describe the text
extraction code you used.
*B)* Table data extraction from PDFs is a complicated topic and focus of large
projects, see tabula for example. Hoping for a decent table data extraction
routine based solely on extracted text is overly optimistic.
*C)* This should not be discussed in a _Bug_ issue here because this is no
_bug_ to start with, it is simply not a feature of PDFBox. There are other
places to discuss ways to implement new features based on PDFBox.
> 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
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> 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)
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> PDFTextStripperByArea stripper = new PDFTextStripperByArea();
> stripper.setSortByPosition(true);
> PDFTextStripper tStripper = new PDFTextStripper();
> String pdfFileInText = tStripper.getText(document);
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