getText() order of reading table is wrong
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Description
Hi,
I have the following pdf file 2019-wk39wo.pdf.
So if I mark the text by hand it does not mark all kind of text elements
if I use the function getText(), pdfparser is reading the text in the marked order. And not like the order of the table :(
As you can see here: the II and III is at the end of the array.
Is there another solution to read the table in the right order??
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Start by reproducing the reported ordering with the linked 2019-wk39wo.pdf and the getText() entry point. Trace how extracted text elements are ordered, then verify that the table is returned in the expected reading order, including the II and III elements.
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