[iText-questions] Wrong extraction of X (disParallelStart/disParallelEnd) coordinate

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2014-12-30 15:01:51 UTC

Post by hkaren
Hello everyone.
I am using LocationTextExtractionStrategy for extracting a text from PDF.
In most of all cases it works fine.
However, there are some cases when the iText library returns wrong X
coordinate (disParallelStart/disParallelEnd) for a word.
01/01/2008 *44566020 TVA A* RECU FFG FFG3801024 004 FFG LF42032
But when I extract it I get the following line
01/01/2008 RECU FFG FFG3801024 004 FFG LF42032 *44566020 TVA A*
As it's visible the *"44566020 TVA A"* part goes to the end of a line after
extraction.
How to solve this problem?

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3. a. You are not telling us how you are extracting the text. Maybe you
aren't using the correct extraction strategy.
3. b. If you are using the correct extraction strategy, you should know
that iText returns the string based on the height of the baselines. You
claim that the X value is wrong, but (1.) this is not true, and (2.)
that is irrelevant. Maybe the Y-value of the baseline of "01/01/2008
RECU FFG FFG3801024 004 FFG LF42032" is higher than the Y-value of the
baseline of "*44566020 TVA A*", in that case you need to use an adapted
strategy that introduces a higher tolerance for the position of the
baseline.

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