Missing numbering after converting to plain text

[nicholas-gs]

Hi @joshy,

I have been using your library to convert a bunch of RTF documents to plain text, before doing further processing to segment the content. The document has a bunch of numbered headers which we use to determine when a section ends and another starts. However, I noticed that sometimes the numbering is missing after using the rtf_to_text function. For example using a snippet

{\\listtext\\pard\\plain\\rtlch\\af3\\afs20\\alang18441\\ab\\ltrch\\f3\\fs20\\lang18441\\langnp18441\\langfe18441\\langfenp18441\\b 10.\\tab}\\pard\\ltrpar\\s19\\itap0\\widctlpar\\qj\\fi-720\\li720\\ri43\\lin720\\rin43\\tx720\\tx1440\\tx2160\\tx2880\\tx3600\\tx4320\\tx5040\\tx5760\\tx6480\\tx7200\\tx7920\\tx8640\\tx9360\\tx10080\\ls23\\ilvl0\\plain\\rtlch\\af3\\afs20\\alang18441\\ab\\ltrch\\f3\\fs20\\lang18441\\langnp18441\\langfe18441\\langfenp18441\\b Trade and other receivables\\tab\\tab\\par\\trowd\\irow0\\irowband0\\trgaph108

it returns just Trade and other receivables, but it should instead be 10. Trade and other receivables.

Not sure the root cause, but I think it is due to the \listtext. If I simply remove it from the rtf string, the numbering is retained in the converted plain text.

Could you advice what should be the correct behaviour?

[joshy]

Hi @nicholas-gs,

thanks for the report. Is it possible to share a document or create a minimal document which is not converted correctly? I can then add it to the test cases and see how to fix it. I am not sure what the correct behavior is, if other RTF application are rendering the numbers it is probably a bug in the conversion.

[nicholas-gs]

Hi @joshy,

Unfortunately I can't share a full document as-is as they are confidential, but I'll try to create a minimal document. Give me a while, I'll try to provide it next week.

Thanks!