[PDFBOX-2138] Corrupted words when using PDFTextStripper

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.5, 1.8.6, 2.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0
• Component/s: Text extraction
• Environment: Windows 7 / 64 bit
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Walter Kehl
• Created: 12/Jun/14 08:44
• Updated: 07/Jun/23 09:36

Description

>> I am using PDFTextStripper (embedded into another application) to get
>> the raw text of PDFs so far with good results but recently a PDF file
>> has appeared where the output of the PDFTextStripper was corrupted. I
>> got sentences like:
>>
>>
>>
>> "There is al o con ern that b nkers may be pushed to misprice risk
>> (No. 6) by the pres ures of c mpetition and an abunda ce of central b
>> nk-provided liquidity."

> Additionally some portions of text appear
> twice in the output: first correctly and then corrupted. I have
> attached an output created with PDFBox's command line options.
> If you compare lines 357- 365 with lines 421-429 you see that it is
> the same paragraph, first ok and then with characters missing. In the
> original source this paragraph is unique.
> The same seems to happen for the other instances where text is corrupted.

I also tried it directly on the command line with the same results: input and output files are attached.

Issue Links

• relates to: PDFBOX-3066 Text extraction garbled in this file, was OK in 1.8