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Ligatures [coefcient should be coefficient]

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Description

I gave your system a test run, and noticed this...

If I select the text within the PDF (Adobe Acrobat) and copy/paste, it performs as expected. When I use your parser, it does not.

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Research direction

No file or test is named. Reproduce the difference between Adobe Acrobat copy/paste and the parser output for the reported ligature, then trace the parser entry point responsible for extracting that text; done means the parser returns "coefficient" rather than the corrupted text.

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Assessment

Tech stack
php
Domain
backend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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