Re: [evince] Copy/pasted lines out of order

["jose aliste gmail com" <jose aliste gmail com>]

Hi,


>
> Is it a goal of Evince to have copy pasted text have the same
> arrangement in the text file as in the PDF?

It is a goal of poppler to try to get the text as in the pdf, the
problem with most pdf files is that they specifiy where the glyphs are
put in the page, not the text... so there is no real text on those
pdfs... and poppler (the library evince uses to render pdf) has some
heuristics, similar to the ones used in OCR programs, to group glyphs
into text... That being said these heuristics cannot be perfect... But
they can certainly be improved.

Greetings

José


>
> Note that similar transformation from Firefox displayed web pages
> with tables to text happens.  Is it something about how copy/paste
> is implemented?  If so, to whom should this question be addressed?
> I do not know where copy/paste is implemented.
>
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