Poppler::Page::textList() is not properly ordered in some pdf files

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Hello,

When I use the function Poppler::Page::textList(), I find that the QList<TextBox *> is not stored in a proper order. I think this might be the pdf script style problem.

There is a comment above Poppler::Page::textList() tells that,"For text written in western languages (left-to-right and up-to-down), the QList contains the text in the proper order."

How can i solve this problem. Any help is really appreciated.

Thanks
Ansif

SGaist

Hi,

I think the best place for that question would be poppler's mailing list and/or IRC channel

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It's already been asked by someone in the Poppler mailing list and i think its not yet solved in there.
Check this, https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40279

SGaist

The bug report being pretty old, you should maybe bump it

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[quote author="SGaist" date="1390429607"]The bug report being pretty old, you should maybe bump it[/quote]

Hey,
Yes the bug report is very old. May be its time to restart it :).

Best Regards,
Ansif