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Re: Missing spaces between words in PDF document

Cearbhall O'Meadhra
 

Sheri,

 

Actually, I ran this PDF document through Abbyyy Finereader and the OCR cured the spacing problem! So, I will have to ask the authors if this document was originally run through OCR to generate the PDF that was sent to me.

 

The OCR caused another problem that is not in the original: There are tables that contain multiple lines of text within each cell. Abbyyy Finereader put all of the text lines onto separate rows and this makes it difficult to make sense of the tables.

 

All the best,

 

Cearbhall

 

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From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of Sheri Byrne-Haber
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2016 10:44 PM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] Missing spaces between words in PDF document

 

For what it’s worth, I usually find this when the text in a document has come through an OCR process.


Sheri

 

From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of Cearbhall O'Meadhra
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2016 4:43 PM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: [nvda] Missing spaces between words in PDF document

 

Hi,

 

Does anyone know what causes some PDF documents to have words that are not separated by a space?

 

For example: “TheCitizensBoard issuesdocumentsabout organisingevents”

This line of text should clearly have a space between the words.

 

I am using Adobe Acrobat Reader under Windows 10 and NVDA 2016.3.

 

This is not new and I often find it. Can anyone explain why it happens or at least what I can do to advise authors on how to avoid sending out these badly structured documents?

 

All the best,

 

Cearbhall

 

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