[TIKA-767] Enable controlling of PDFBOX's setSuppressDuplicateOverlappingText from PDFParser

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.1
• Component/s: parser
• Assignee: Michael McCandless
• Reporter: Michael McCandless
• Created: 01/Nov/11 22:55
• Updated: 04/Nov/11 16:28
• Resolved: 04/Nov/11 16:28

Description

Given that there are some problems with how overlapping text is
removed (slow performance: PDFBOX-956; some chars incorrectly skipped:
PDFBOX-1155), I think we should make this controllable from Tika's
PDFParser and I think it's best to default it to off for now.