[PDFBOX-939] Lost whitespaces when extracting Arabic text

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0
• Component/s: Text extraction
• Assignee: Andreas Lehmkühler
• Reporter: Anton Stremoukhov
• Created: 11/Jan/11 15:11
• Updated: 04/Mar/11 10:29
• Resolved: 25/Jan/11 07:18

Description

I tried to extract text from an arabic PDF. Result looks good for the first look, but if you look closer, you may notice that some of whitespaces is missing comparing to copy/pasted text from the same PDF.

Copy/pasted line from attached PDF:
بعد ما اكتشف حقيقة المثلث الغامض

Extracted text:
بعد ما اكتشف حقيقةالمثلثالغامض