[PDFBOX-5487] extra whitespaces when extracting Arabic text

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.32, 3.0.3 PDFBox
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.33, 3.0.4 PDFBox, 4.0.0
• Component/s: Text extraction
• Labels: Arabic
• Flags: Important
• Assignee: Tilman Hausherr
• Reporter: Fatemeh Elyasi
• Created: 04/Aug/22 21:12
• Updated: 16/Dec/24 16:58
• Resolved: 15/Dec/24 14:13

Description

trying to extract text from an arabic PDF. You may notice that some of whitespaces are extracted in wrong place.

Example:
Original word: العالمية
Extracted word: العالمي ة

 

Pdf is attached, the example word is on the first line.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #155