when cell content exceeds cell boundaries, next cell gets messed up (exmples)

[shula]

When 2 of the cells in the PDF continue beyond the cell's boundary, the next cell's content goes "crazy" (i.e. is totally different than expected)

in the example sample:

I assume the PDF source is EXCEL, where it's common to see long text cut at the border of the cell. I don't know for sure.

• PDF file (download)
• TSV output file
  (The document is RTL, ie. right to left; therefore, the 2nd cell is the 2nd from the right)

Command line used:
java -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 -jar tabula-1.0.5-jar-with-dependencies.jar sample.pdf -f TSV > sample.tsv

The bogus lines are identified / starts with: 1068, 1103
Output lines with the problem:
43 E2U9 A10L YCPCT "ש""א אקליפטוס סיטריאדורה SCITRIADORA/" 1068
60 43 10 CEUCC "ש""א אקליפטוס רדיאטה LYPTUSRADIATA/" 1103

In the output, i see 2 phenomena:

1. the wrong text "A10L YCPCT" should've been: "10 CC"
2. the wrong text "E209" should've been: "29". etc.
3. the word "EUCALIPTUS" is cut in these lines. This makes sense, since it's not visible, and therefore, not a real bug.

in the attache sample.df > converted text file in the 3rd field shoud've been the text "10 CC".

My setup:

• windows 10
• java version "1.8.0_401"
• tabula 1.0.5

[jeremybmerrill]

Hi @shula Unfortunately this is expected behavior for a PDF with this kind of problem. The "extra"/unexpected characters (for example AL YPT in line 1068) are present, but under the text for the next cell to the left. So Tabula is correctly extracting the characters.