[TIKA-1671] Wrapped lines in PDF files not processed correctly

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 1.9
• Component/s: parser
• Labels: pdf wrapping
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: James Baker
• Created: 01/Jul/15 13:56
• Updated: 17/Jul/15 19:02
• Resolved: 17/Jul/15 08:58

Description

Text that wraps over multiple lines in PDF documents is not extracted correctly by Tika. The expected behaviour would be for it to be extracted as a single line, but instead a line break is inserted at each wrap point.

This makes it hard, if not impossible, to reassemble text into it's intended form, as it is not known whether a line break in the extracted text is one that appeared in the document or one that was inserted by Tika.

Issue Links

• relates to: PDFBOX-2890 Wrapped lines in PDF files not processed correctly