Thread: Have Good Source File But In Conversion to PDF Nearly Every Other Word is Split
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Old 07-23-2020, 05:46 AM   #3
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Nothing particularly surprising. In PDF individual font glyphs are often positioned one by one, not as complete words or sentences. SO when extracting text from PDF, such as for copying, programs have to guess what are word boundaries based on positioning, they sometimes guess wrong.
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