Update pdf.py PageObject.extractText() #334
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These changes allow for an optional text separator for TJ and Tj operators. These source alterations were originally suggested in StackOverflow at: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11017379/pypdf-ignores-newlines-in-pdf-file by DSM I'm just passing along the good suggestion in hopes that the change may become standard in some future version.
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Do you have an example where something else than a single whitespace would be desired? |
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By the way: Sorry that it took so long to react! I do realize that you propably don't even remember this PR. Also: Don't worry about the failing tests; that is expected for this PR. |
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Yeah, this was a while ago... Ok, I resurrected the project I was working on. So I was trying to extract text from some form-formatted pdf pages which had newlines separating the text I was interested in, so I used |
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Features: - Add alpha channel support for png files in Script (#614) Bug fixes (BUG): - Fix formatWarning for filename without slash (#612) - Add whitespace between words for extractText() (#569, #334) - "invalid escape sequence" SyntaxError (#522) - Avoid error when printing warning in pythonw (#486) - Stream operations can be List or Dict (#665) Documentation (DOC): - Added Scripts/pdf-image-extractor.py - Documentation improvements (#550, #538, #324, #426, #394) Tests and Test setup (TST): - Add Github Action which automatically run unit tests via pytest and static code analysis with Flake8 (#660) - Add several unit tests (#661, #663) - Add .coveragerc to create coverage reports Developer Experience Improvements (DEV): - Pre commit: Developers can now `pre-commit install` to avoid tiny issues like trailing whitespaces Miscallenious: - Add the LICENSE file to the distributed packages (#288) - Use setuptools instead of distutils (#599) - Improvements for the PyPI page (#644) - Python 3 changes (#504, #366) You can see the full changelog at: 1.26.0...1.27.0
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These changes allow for an optional text separator for TJ and Tj operators.
These source alterations were originally suggested in StackOverflow at:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11017379/pypdf-ignores-newlines-in-pdf-file
by DSM
I'm just passing along the good suggestion in hopes that the change may become standard in some future version.