Bug 92509 - pdttotext transposes words and groups of words.
Summary: pdttotext transposes words and groups of words.
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: poppler
Classification: Unclassified
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
: medium major
Assignee: poppler-bugs
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Reported: 2015-10-17 17:14 UTC by xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Modified: 2015-10-17 17:24 UTC (History)
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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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