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  1. PDFBox
  2. PDFBOX-2508

Text extraction getting zero font height, bad widths, and ? for text in this PDF with Type 3 Fonts

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    • Bug
    • Status: Closed
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 1.8.7, 2.0.0
    • 1.8.11, 2.0.0
    • Text extraction

    Description

      Attached file is just line one from a file where every piece of text has these problems. All the other lines were removed with Nitro to make a small test case.

      This is the output from PrintTextLocations example:
      String[211.92,356.8801 fs=58.0 xscale=58.0 height=1.75392 space=190528.28 width=1.7052002]?
      String[129.84,347.04 fs=58.0 xscale=58.0 height=2.72832 space=288435.66 width=2.679596]?
      String[70.32,299.28 fs=58.0 xscale=58.0 height=3.31296 space=349985.12 width=7.0643997]?
      String[77.3844,299.28 fs=58.0 xscale=58.0 height=3.31296 space=349985.12 width=4.8720016]?
      String[82.2564,299.28 fs=58.0 xscale=58.0 height=3.31296 space=349985.12 width=6.333603]?
      String[88.590004,299.28 fs=58.0 xscale=58.0 height=3.31296 space=349985.12 width=6.577202]?
      String[95.167206,299.28 fs=58.0 xscale=58.0 height=3.31296 space=349985.12 width=6.0899963]?
      String[101.2572,299.28 fs=58.0 xscale=58.0 height=3.31296 space=349985.12 width=6.333603]?
      String[107.590805,299.28 fs=58.0 xscale=58.0 height=3.31296 space=349985.12 width=6.0899963]?
      String[113.6808,299.28 fs=58.0 xscale=58.0 height=3.31296 space=349985.12 width=4.8720016]?
      String[118.5528,299.28 fs=58.0 xscale=58.0 height=3.31296 space=349985.12 width=3.1668015]?
      String[121.719604,299.28 fs=58.0 xscale=58.0 height=3.31296 space=349985.12 width=6.333603]?
      String[128.0532,299.28 fs=58.0 xscale=58.0 height=3.31296 space=349985.12 width=6.577194]?
      String[134.63042,299.28 fs=58.0 xscale=58.0 height=3.31296 space=349985.12 width=6.0899963]?
      String[140.72041,299.28 fs=58.0 xscale=58.0 height=3.31296 space=349985.12 width=3.1667938]?
      String[522.95984,293.28 fs=58.0 xscale=58.0 height=1.36416 space=150394.36 width=1.4616089]?

      Fontsize is way too big (should be more like 8), value for space is ridiculous, height is too small. And each character is coming through as a '?'. The original file has this on every piece of text.

      In Acrobat everything looks fine, both in the original and in this test case.

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        1. screenshot of acrobat.png
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          Fred Andrews
        2. badtext.pdf
          242 kB
          Fred Andrews

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          duplicates

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. PDFBOX-3045 File that read fine in 1.8 does not in 2.0

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. PDFBOX-3077 Type 3 Fonts getting incorrect values for widthofspace

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed
          is related to

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. PDFBOX-3175 PDFTextStreamEngine probably miscalculates text height

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

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              tilman Tilman Hausherr
              fred_andrews Fred Andrews
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