[PDFBOX-3960] Spaces are ignored when reading text using TextPosition

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Bug
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.13
• Component/s: Parsing, Text extraction
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Rampradeep B
• Created: 11/Oct/17 07:54
• Updated: 11/Oct/17 14:31
• Resolved: 11/Oct/17 14:31

Description

Hi,

The following code snippet should print each character from the PDF (including Space as a character). But for some PDFs return text with missing spaces between words.

public class PDFTextStripperProcessor extends PDFTextStripper {
@Override
public void processTextPosition( TextPosition text )

{ System.out.println( text.getCharacter() ); }

}

TextPosition getCharacter() is not returning space between words. Due to this, I am getting text without spaces. Please provide the solution to avoid missing spaces.

Please find the Input PDF in the attachment.

Thanks,
Rampradeep B