Skip to content

Duplicate characters in pdf text output #31

@VMilewskiFF

Description

@VMilewskiFF

The returned text output from pdfplumber sometimes returns all tokens duplicated. Here is a short snippet of what it looks like:
HHeett mmaaxxiimmaaaall fíiissccaaaall...

Unfortunately I cannot provide an example pdf, since it is private data.

It is a known issue, and pdfplumber has a method 'dedup_chars' to fix it. Can a setting be included to add a call to this in the pdf processing pipeline?

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    No labels
    No labels

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions