[Poppler-bugs] [Bug 13573] New: Poppler does not support ActualText

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13573

           Summary: Poppler does not support ActualText
           Product: poppler
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: poppler-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: ajohnson at redneon.com


Poppler does not support ActualText. The ActualText entry is used to specify
replacement text for content that does translate to text but is represented in
a non standard way (eg glyphs for ligatures). ActualText support is required to
enable text to be correctly extracted from the pdf.

Some examples of PDFs that use ActualText are at http://www.unicode.org/udhr/
One of the PDFs that I tested is http://www.unicode.org/udhr/d/udhr_san.pdf

A patch to implement ActualText support is attached.


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