No spaces inserted when cursor is moved horizontally

[archonia-chris]

I have a pdf that shows text that is aligned in columns (probably a pdf export of an excel file):

First Header	Second Header
Cell 1	Cell 2
Cell 3	Cell 3

There is no character spacing between cell 1 and cell 2 causing the text to be output as:

First headerSecond header
Cell 1Cell 2
Cell 3Cell 4

The spacing in the pdf is apparently done using the Text Matrix "Tm" command. I adjusted the "Tm" handling to take a change in the x coordinate into consideration to get spacing between the cells.

Object.php / getText ->

case 'Tm':
$args = preg_split('/\s/s', $command[self::COMMAND]);
$y = array_pop($args);
$x = array_pop($args);

// ADDED START
if ($current_position_tm['x'] !== false) {
$delta = abs(floatval($x) - floatval($current_position_tm['x']));
if ($delta > 10) {
$text .= " ";
}
}
// ADDED STOP

if ($current_position_tm['y'] !== false) {
$delta = abs(floatval($y) - floatval($current_position_tm['y']));
if ($delta > 10) {
$text .= "\n";
}
}
$current_position_tm = array('x' => $x, 'y' => $y);
break;

Would that be a correct way to fix the problem?

[Stichoza]

@archonia You saved my day! Thanks! 👍 Open a pull request with this change, I think @smalot will merge it. Or if you're not interested in this package more, I have already forked this repo with changes committed so I can send a PR if you're not against. I mean you're the author of this fix, so I don't want to "steal" your PR without asking 😄

[archonia-chris]

@Stichoza Feel free to submit a pull-request. I'm still using this package but am not so fluent with github. I'm also not sure what delta should be to justify insertion of a space (10 worked for the file I was trying to parse). Inserting a tab is another option.

[rubenvanerk]

Fixed by #97