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Improve pdfiototext text extraction #49

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kleuter opened this issue Oct 10, 2023 · 1 comment
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Improve pdfiototext text extraction #49

kleuter opened this issue Oct 10, 2023 · 1 comment
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kleuter commented Oct 10, 2023

Trying to understand how to pdfiototext.c works. The code seem to output too many extra unnecessary spaces for this PDF.

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Keep in mind that the pdfiototext program is just a proof of concept/example. If you need text output there are far better options available...

In this case, the spaces are placed between fragments in the content stream. This particular file does a lot of kerning and pdfiototext is not smart enough to merge adjacent fragments.

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@michaelrsweet michaelrsweet changed the title pdfiototext.c output is weird (extra spaces) Improve pdfiototext text extraction Oct 10, 2023
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