PDFium text extraction duplicates text

[Harry Bego]

When using pdfium's text extraction features I find that in rare cases fragments of text are duplicated.

I have one PDF from which almost all pages are duplicated.

Is this a known issue?

Thank you for any clues!

Harry

[Lei Zhang]

Assuming you are using FPDFText_GetText(), you can search our bug
tracker [1] for the known issues that mention that particular
function.

If you can share a PDF, we can look into why that PDF has duplicate
text. You can always file a bug for this, and we can discuss the issue
on the bug.

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/pdfium/issues/list?can=2&q=FPDFText_GetText

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[Harry Bego]

Thank you for your reply. I have uploaded a PDF to my DropBox at 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jem5wvfzm0dsrvy/gunners.pdf?dl=0

Extracting text from this, most pages are duplicated. 

The bug tracker does not list related issues for FPDFText_GetText.

I use Erik Salaj's TPdf implementation for C++Builder VCL; I'm not sure if this calls FPDFText_GetText

Contacting Erik he confirmed that the pages are duplicated for this PDF.

Thanks for your help!

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