Public bug reported: [Impact] PDF documents OCRed with tesseract show black boxes when selecting text
[Test case] Run ocrmypdf on a pdf, open it in evince, select some text. You should not see black boxes. [Regression potential] The patch is minimal invasive and only changes the behavior for the tesseract glyphless font. [Other info] Upstream is unhelpfully refusing to merge the patch in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/merge_requests/208 because it's not abstract enough for them (as it only handles tesseract). ** Affects: poppler Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Affects: poppler (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Assignee: Julian Andres Klode (juliank) Status: In Progress ** Bug watch added: gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues #157 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/157 ** Also affects: poppler via https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/157 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Changed in: poppler (Ubuntu) Status: New => In Progress ** Changed in: poppler (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Julian Andres Klode (juliank) ** Description changed: [Impact] PDF documents OCRed with tesseract show black boxes when selecting text [Test case] Run ocrmypdf on a pdf, open it in evince, select some text. You should not see black boxes. [Regression potential] The patch is minimal invasive and only changes the behavior for the tesseract glyphless font. + + [Other info] + Upstream is unhelpfully refusing to merge the patch in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/merge_requests/208 because it's not abstract enough for them (as it only handles tesseract). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to poppler in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1830473 Title: Does not handle glyphless fonts, as used by tesseract Status in Poppler: Unknown Status in poppler package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: [Impact] PDF documents OCRed with tesseract show black boxes when selecting text [Test case] Run ocrmypdf on a pdf, open it in evince, select some text. You should not see black boxes. [Regression potential] The patch is minimal invasive and only changes the behavior for the tesseract glyphless font. [Other info] Upstream is unhelpfully refusing to merge the patch in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/merge_requests/208 because it's not abstract enough for them (as it only handles tesseract). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/poppler/+bug/1830473/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
