extract_text without trimming about tabulapdf HOT 6 OPEN

I think this is an inherent limitation of PDF format. As I understand it, white space is not represented as actual "space" characters but rather as horizontal offsets for the represented text. So, the underlying tabula library has no way of knowing how much space there is because there's nothing there except the horizontal start position of the text. I could be wrong as I'm not a PDF expert, but my fear is your workaround might be the only way to achieve this.

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That makes sense, although what I'm suggesting t would just be about
representing the offsets with whitespace. It sounds like what you're saying
is as far as you know, Tabula doesn't give options to do this. Since your
goal is to create an R binding I suppose it's a feature request to be send
over to the tabula guys?

RPoppler / pdftools seems to get along the lines of what I want, but there
are some problems there too. Some of the text in adjacent lines gets mashed.

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I think this is an inherent limitation of PDF format. As I understand it,
white space is not represented as actual "space" characters but rather as
horizontal offsets for the represented text. So, the underlying tabula
library has no way of knowing how much space there is because there's
nothing there except the horizontal start position of the text. I could be
wrong as I'm not a PDF expert, but my fear is your workaround might be the
only way to achieve this.

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Oh actually extract_text() isn't a tabula feature. It just uses pdfbox. If it looks like it possible directly with PDFbox, I can try to implement it but I don't think it is possible.

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I can't figure out how to do it here, but I have a piece of Java code... can I send it to you?

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Thanks. I will take a look as soon as I can.

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Awesome, thanks. Hoping it helps improve the package!

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Thanks. I will take a look as soon as I can.

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