Artifact characters extracted in some PDFs

[tristancatteeuw]

Discussed in #1240

^{Originally posted by tristan19954 September 1, 2021}
Hello,
I have an issue when extracting text from a pdf file. I have done this on hundred of documents with goo results, but this particular pdf has an unexpected behavior.
Here is a look at the pdf :

and now the text extracted :

As you can see, a bunch of "i" and "t" characters appeared on every line of text. I thought it might be an issue with the pdf, but when trying an online pdf converter, I didn't get those characters.

Any idea on what the issue might be?

[JorjMcKie]

As I wrote in #1240: I do need a reproducer file and a code snippet for how you extracted the text.

[tristancatteeuw]

As I wrote in #1240: I do need a reproducer file and a code snippet for how you extracted the text.

I just provided a code snippet in the discussion. Maybe that might help

[JorjMcKie]

Caused by characters with empty bboxes. Fixed by checking this at various places.

[JorjMcKie]

new version 1.18.18 now on PyPI