Description: We have OCR'ed newspapers and we tried to open one of them in LibreOffice. Unfortunately, it exposes the underlying selectable text as green text, when in fact if you open this in Adobe Reader then the text is invisible until you select it. Steps to Reproduce: Open the attached PDF in LibreOffice Open the attached PDF in Acrobat Reader Now save the document to PDF, then open it in Acrobat Reader Actual Results: Note the difference - Acrobat Reader no text shows until you select it, in LibreOffice the text is immediately visible (and an odd shade of green). If you then export the document as a PDF and open it in Acrobat Reader it now shows all the text as green over the top of the newspaper archive. Expected Results: I'm expecting the text to remain invisible. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No - don't believe this is relevant. Additional Info: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.87 Safari/537.36
Created attachment 129755 [details] Problematic PDF
Created attachment 129756 [details] Problematic PDF - test document
Created attachment 129757 [details] The PDF opened in LibreOffice Writer 5.2.2
Created attachment 129758 [details] The PDF opened in Acrobat Reader
Created attachment 129759 [details] The PDF opened in LibreOffice Writer 5.2.2
Confirmed. Note: LibreOffice is not a PDF reader. It converts the PDF to its own format. Arch Linux 64-bit, KDE Plasma 5 Version: 5.4.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: db9aec4520766c87a09d4cb0238ed06ebaeaaeeb CPU Threads: 8; OS Version: Linux 4.8; UI Render: default; VCL: kde4; Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); Calc: group Built on December 18th 2016
Putting back to NEW as there's no assignee to this bug
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I've looked into this a bit more. The issue is that we don't (or perhaps can't yet!) implement text rendering mode 3 - neither fill nor stroke text (invisible). https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/pdf/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf See PDF 32000-1:2008 section 9.3.6 Text Rendering Mode.
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Issue remains with current master/6.3.0alpha0+, However as the OCR'd PDF is a bitmap, the text spans are annotation on that image. Showing the annotation on import to Draw--where the PDF is broken out to its component Draw elements--actually seems correct. Inserting the PDF (pdfium based, but just the first page of PDF for now) renders the PDF page as an image. The inserted "Image" can be selected and with "Break" split into its component text and the scanned newspaper page. After break, the scanned image can be selected and removed leaving just the OCR text as Draw text frames. It is slow, and utility of this is questionable--but then manipulating PDF content is questionable. The text from a PDF is not intended to be manipulated.
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@quikee, something fixable?
Another exemple is attachment 165948 [details] where text box "LAYERSCAPE LX2160A BLOCK DIAGRAM" is duplicated on page 2.
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