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  1. PDFBox
  2. PDFBOX-800

Wrong text extract from vertical textboxes in pdf files

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    • Bug
    • Status: Open
    • Major
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • 1.7.0
    • None
    • Text extraction
    • None
    • Windows 7, VS 2010 C#, Tika Library

    Description

      Vertical textboxes in pdf files are not extracted correctly (using the tika library in C#).
      For example if there is a vertical textbox "hello" in a pdf file (Unable to render embedded object: File (WITHOUT) not found. line breaks):
      H
      E
      L
      L
      O
      the parser returns 5 strings, each with a single letter, even there is NO line break after every letter.
      Is there a option to avoid this problem?

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          Sandor Dj
        2. problemdoc.pdf
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          Sandor Dj

        Issue Links

          is duplicated by

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. PDFBOX-2879 Wrong vertical text extraction for apache PDFBox 2.0.0

          • Minor - Minor loss of function, or other problem where easy workaround is present.
          • Closed
          relates to

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. PDFBOX-2272 Can't extract vertical text correctly

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Open

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              sandor1990 Sandor Dj
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