[PDFBOX-3719] pdfbox parses spaces as tabs

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.13
• Component/s: Text extraction
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ahmed Eltayeb
• Created: 16/Mar/17 13:57
• Updated: 16/Mar/17 20:54
• Resolved: 16/Mar/17 20:54

Description

i converted this pdf from the attached word document "DummyDoc.docx"

then when using pdfbox1.8 to extract text
java -jar pdfbox-app-1.8.13.jar ExtractText "DummyDoc.pdf" txt.txt

and the generated is

Dummy document for tag extraction

Section 1

DummyTagOne_01
This is text body one

DummyTagOne_02
This is text body two

Section 2
DummyTagTwo_01
This is text body three

DummyTagTwo_02
This is text body four

DummyTagTwo_03
This is text body five

as you can see "This is text body one " instead of "This is text body one " and so on