Hi, On 04/02/2011 03:24 PM, Hesham G. wrote:
I have a PDF file that I am extracting data from it using PDFBox v1.5. If i copy text from it manually like: "SUPPLY FAN | G0320 B11-14998" to Notepad, it is copied fine ... But in PDFBox it is read like this: "SUPPLY FAN | B11-14998G0320" ... Many other text does the same thing. You can test a 1 page sample PDF here : http://www.4shared.com/document/XDzWQFyY/wrong_extracted_text_sample.html
Enabling the sortByPosition option [1] in the text extraction typically helps solve problems like this. See also the equivalent -sort option of the ExtractText command [2].
[1] http://pdfbox.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/pdfbox/util/PDFTextStripper.html#setSortByPosition(boolean)
[2] http://pdfbox.apache.org/commandlineutilities/ExtractText.html -- Jukka Zitting
