Bug 92509

Summary:	pdttotext transposes words and groups of words.
Product:	poppler	Reporter:	xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Component:	general	Assignee:	poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description xxxxxxxxxxxxx 2015-10-17 17:14:53 UTC

pdftotext my.pdf

is transposing words in the text output

Here is the output from:

pdftohtml my.pdf

green<br/>
Hey jiff, rockit! &#160;Barfy, stick&#160;<br/>
to decimals!<br/>

and here is the output from:

pdttotext my.pdf

green
Hey jiff, rockit!
to decimals!

Barfy, stick

This is poppler from doing a current git clone.

Comment 1 xxxxxxxxxxxxx 2015-10-17 17:24:13 UTC

This can be closed because using -layout option keeps the text in the correct order.

(Okay reminder to self, look at command line options.)

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