I also sometimes wished such a feature, but I'm afraid that would cost too much manpower. Compared to other needs definitively not more than Importance "Medium", I doubt that that ever will be integrated.

Hi,

I am a developer on a digital library software, and, aiming at supporting digital preservation, I was thinking of exploiting the wonderful PDF importer filter of LibreOffice to archive .odt document next to the original .pdf (as the .odt document should provide more value for future retrieval and the use of the document).

Indeed I also find this a very nice feature to have and it should be possible to implement it via some heuristic such as merging together subsequent lines that are not too far from each other (e.g. say that they are not more distant than the height of the character).

If no-one have time to work on it I'd be glad to give it a try in my spare time, if someone could be so kind to point me at the most appropriate source code files that would need to be touched.

Cheers!

@Samuele Kaplun:
That would be great. 

I'm afraid that won't be easy. I do not know how that works for other OS, but for WIN I have to install the "Oracle PDF Import Extension" from 
<http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/search/node/pdf import>, what itself afaik uses XPDF <http://foolabs.com/xpdf/about.html> as text extractor.

That's all I can contribute.

BTW: Version is for the first version where the problem has been observed!

(In reply to comment #3)
> @Samuele Kaplun:
> I'm afraid that won't be easy. I do not know how that works for other OS, but
> for WIN I have to install the "Oracle PDF Import Extension" from 
> <http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/search/node/pdf import>, what
> itself afaik uses XPDF <http://foolabs.com/xpdf/about.html> as text extractor.

From <http://www.libreoffice.org/features/extensions/> I understand that finally this extension is part of the core LibreOffice source tree. Is this so?

> That's all I can contribute.
> 
> BTW: Version is for the first version where the problem has been observed!

Sorry for this!! That makes perfect sense!

> From <http://www.libreoffice.org/features/extensions/> I understand that
> finally this extension is part of the core LibreOffice source tree. Is this so?

I thought so, too, but for my 3.4 I definitively had to download the extension. Pls see 
<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35604#c6>

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