[PDFBOX-5002] PDFTextStripper sometimes fuses two words on different lines

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.21
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.22, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Component/s: Text extraction
• Assignee: Tilman Hausherr
• Reporter: Thierry Guérin
• Created: 26/Oct/20 15:25
• Updated: 14/Jun/21 17:26
• Resolved: 08/Nov/20 06:13

Description

This happens when a text in a big font is followed by at least two lines of text in a smaller font: the last word of the first line is merged with the first word of the second line.

On the attached PDF, the extracted text is :

(...) some text awith smaller font (...)

instead of:

 

(...) some text with a smaller font (...)

I often encounter this kind of problem on invoices, where the company address (small text at the top right) is next to the company name & logo (big centered text at the top).

 

Issue Links

• breaks: PDFBOX-5213 PDFTextStripper adds next line symbol after sup values (regression)
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #89