Bug 94504 - pdftotext and pdftohtml fails to extract columns
Summary: pdftotext and pdftohtml fails to extract columns
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: poppler
Classification: Unclassified
Component: utils (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86 (IA32) Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: poppler-bugs
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Reported: 2016-03-11 22:13 UTC by John Damm Sørensen
Modified: 2016-03-12 10:37 UTC (History)
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PDF-filewith columns that is not processed corerctly (7.87 MB, text/plain)
2016-03-11 22:13 UTC, John Damm Sørensen 		Details
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Description John Damm Sørensen 2016-03-11 22:13:29 UTC 
Created attachment 122241 [details]
PDF-filewith columns that is not processed corerctly

pdftotext and pdftohtml fail to correctly process certain PDF pages with three columns.
For the attached PDF-file the error occurs on page 5 where the rendered text is not in correct order.

Rendered text (XXXX represents social security numbers in the file. The rendered text is correctly with 4 digits):
S08032016-17
Alle og enhver, der har noget til gode
i nedennævnte bo, indkaldes herved
til at anmelde og dokumentere deres
krav inden 8 uger

S08032016-21
Alle og enhver, der har noget til gode
i nedennævnte bo, indkaldes herved
til at anmelde og dokumentere deres
krav inden 8 uger

S08032016-26
Alle og enhver, der har noget til gode
i nedennævnte bo, indkaldes herved
til at anmelde og dokumentere deres
krav inden 8 uger

Afdøde
Cpr.nr. 190521XXXX
Dødsdato 11.02.2016
Frede Jensen
Hyldevej 12
9300 Sæby

Afdøde
Cpr.nr. 150733XXXX
Dødsdato 04.01.2016
Inger Kathrine Simonsen
Gl. Tingvej 40F, 1 th.
9600 Aars

Afdøde
Cpr.nr. 300121XXXX
Dødsdato 26.01.2016
Anna Hartlev
Gulkrog 16, st
7100 Vejle
Comment 1 John Damm Sørensen 2016-03-11 22:15:37 UTC 
Forgot to mention the the version of poppler is poppler-0.41.0 compiled on Fedora 22.
Comment 2 John Damm Sørensen 2016-03-12 10:37:50 UTC 
the option -raw seems to work.
Sorry John

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