Bug 13573 - Poppler does not support ActualText
Summary: Poppler does not support ActualText
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: poppler
Classification: Unclassified
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
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Assignee: poppler-bugs
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Reported: 2007-12-09 02:22 UTC by Adrian Johnson
Modified: 2007-12-09 09:08 UTC (History)
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ActualText patch (7.74 KB, patch)
2007-12-09 02:24 UTC, Adrian Johnson 		Details | Splinter Review
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Description Adrian Johnson 2007-12-09 02:22:29 UTC 
Poppler does not support ActualText. The ActualText entry is used to specify replacement text for content that does translate to text but is represented in a non standard way (eg glyphs for ligatures). ActualText support is required to enable text to be correctly extracted from the pdf.

Some examples of PDFs that use ActualText are at http://www.unicode.org/udhr/
One of the PDFs that I tested is http://www.unicode.org/udhr/d/udhr_san.pdf

A patch to implement ActualText support is attached.
Comment 1 Adrian Johnson 2007-12-09 02:24:14 UTC 
Created attachment 13005 [details] [review]
ActualText patch

Patch to implement ActualText
Comment 2 Albert Astals Cid 2007-12-09 09:08:52 UTC 
Patch commited thanks a lot. Are you subscribed to poppler mailing list? If not we will be happy of getting people like you there :-)

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