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jsvine / pdfplumber

Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables.
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Reding different words as continuous one word. #752

Closed ameymn closed 1 year ago

ameymn commented 1 year ago

Describe the bug

When we read the pdf using pdfplumber the bug is it is reading some individual words together as single long word

Code to reproduce the problem

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PDF file

pdfplumber bug.pdf

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Expected behavior

I was expecting the words to be read individually as they has space between them.

Actual behavior

It is ignoring space between word and many individual word as continuous long word .

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Additional context

jsvine commented 1 year ago

Hi @ameymn, have you tried using the x_tolerance= parameter of .extract_text(...)?:

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jsvine commented 1 year ago

Closing this issue due to likely resolution posted, lack of response, and lack of original PDF to test against. Feel free, however, to continue the discussion.