pdf2json interprets one word as 2 JSON objects

[felixhaag]

Hi,

I use pdf2json to parse some pdfs, which contain week-tables. However, after I parse the files, there’s a strange behavior - some of the words are separated in the JSON-file as different objects, while they’re actually one word inside of the pdf.

Example: Files: plan.pdf plan.txt (sorry, can't upload JSON-Files)

The word: „Champignons“ (column: „Mittwoch“, row: 2, line: 3) is interpreted as "Champig" and "nons" (2 JSON Objects)

JSON: {"x":26.51,"y":16.388,"w":3.932,"sw":0.35678125,"clr":0,"A":"left","R":[{"T":"Champig","S":3,"TS":[0,12,0,0]}]},{"x":28.745,"y":16.388,"w":7.169,"sw":0.35678125,"clr":0,"A":"left","R":[{"T":"nons%20und%20Lauch%20","S":3,"TS":[0,12,0,0]}]}

This issue also occur in other rows. I suspect that it's caused by the specific pdf-structure.

Any ideas how I can fix that?

Thanks for your support!

[modesty]

have you tried to parse with '-m' in cmd line?

[felixhaag]

Thanks for your reply! Tried it with '-m' in command-line, but the words are still interpreted as separated JSON-objects

[modesty]

could you remove Math.abs from line 197 of lib/pdf2json/pdffont.js, then run with -m again?

[felixhaag]

After I removed the Math.abs function and ran it with the 'm' parameter, the strings in the columns next to each other were merged together. The affected words are still presented in separated JSON-objects.

[modesty]

could you try it with v1.1.6?

[autoantwort]

Hello, I don't think that this is a bug with pdf2json and the word Champignons is divided into two PDF objects in the PDF. So this is a "Bug" when the document was created. If you select the text with the chromium buildin PDF Viewer the word Champignons gets splitted into two words too.