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  1. PDFBox
  2. PDFBOX-1860

HTML converter escapes formatting close tags

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    • Bug
    • Status: Closed
    • Minor
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 1.8.3
    • 1.8.5, 2.0.0
    • Text extraction
    • None

    Description

      Bug introduced by PDFBOX-1213 in 1.8.3 for HTML style information.
      Bold style tags are opened correctly, but the close tags are html-escaped.

      ~/work/pdfbox ((1.8.3))$ java -jar app/target/pdfbox-app-1.8.3.jar ExtractText -html -nonSeq -console pdftest.pdf 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html><head><title>1725.PDF</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
</head>
<body>
<div style="page-break-before:always; page-break-after:always"><div><p>E:\M55\!\1725.fm 2003-01-01 18:15 P Tagg, IPM, University of Liverpool
</p>
<p><b>A VERY SMALL PDF FILE
&lt;/b&gt;</p>
<p><b>A VERY SMALL PDF FILE
&lt;/b&gt;</p>
<p><b>A VERY SMALL PDF FILE
&lt;/b&gt;</p>
<p><b>A VERY SMALL PDF FILE
&lt;/b&gt;</p>
<p><b>A VERY SMALL PDF FILE
&lt;/b&gt;</p>
<p><b>A VERY SMALL PDF FILE&lt;/b&gt;</p>

</div></div>
</body></html>

      Attachments

        1. PDFBOX-1860_Do_not_escape_html_formatting_close_tags.patch
          3 kB
          Cheng Leong
        2. pdftest.pdf
          3 kB
          Cheng Leong

        Issue Links

          is broken by

          Improvement - An improvement or enhancement to an existing feature or task. PDFBOX-1213 Adding style information to the PDF to HTML converter

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

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              lehmi Andreas Lehmkühler
              cheng@indeed.com Cheng Leong
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