Bug 13573

Summary:	Poppler does not support ActualText
Product:	poppler	Reporter:	Adrian Johnson <ajohnson>
Component:	general	Assignee:	poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	ActualText patch

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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