Shuffled text in native PDF

[JbIPS]

Hi,

I'm extracting data from PDF with native text and some rows of the table have their content shuffled, as you can see in this live example or here:

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I'm using Tessaract as OCR but if I understood well, it should not be used since the text is native. I also saw that behavior with some bold text (but not all), I don't know if it's related.

Is there a workaround? Maybe some misused params on my configuration?

Thank you

[TianqiWang1]

I encountered similar issues when extracting table from PDF - some word orders are reversed. Have you figured this out?

[JbIPS]

I didn't. I tried a workaround with pattern matching because my use case only need to know if a kind of substring exists, but it's harder when the words are in reverse.

Are you using Tessaract too? I don't think it's related but maybe I'm wrong and it's the source of the issue

[TianqiWang1]

Yes I'm passing in Tesseract too. But same as your case, I assumed native text extraction was actually used.