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arjunce updated PDFBOX-5828:
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Labels: (was: easyfix)
> PDFTextStripper created garbled text
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> Key: PDFBOX-5828
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-5828
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Text extraction
> Affects Versions: 3.0.1 PDFBox, 3.0.2 PDFBox
> Reporter: arjunce
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: output_text_stripper.txt, screenshot-1.png, test.pdf
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> Hello Folks,
> I am using pdfbox to extract and manipulate text contents of the pdf and
> using PDFTextStripper to extract text. I am also setting the below options:
> {code:java}
> PDDocument document = Loader.loadPDF(new
> File("src/test/resources/pdf/test.pdf"));
> PDFTextStripper textStripper = new PDFTextStripper();
> textStripper.setSortByPosition(true);
> textStripper.setWordSeparator(" "); {code}
> The Textcomparator is not transitive as mentioned in a comment. The custom
> merge sort implemented is messing up the text at the Individual character
> level and I can't fix the text later.
> I have attached the sample pdf and its text output below. The merge sort
> doesn't consider the y coordinates and x coordinates when sorting the
> letters. Adding that while sorting would fix this issue.
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