Hi Tilman,
We are using pdfbox 2.0.23 version, we have made no changes, no upgrades but it suddenly stopped working. Though it is a maven project so it use to download decencies but in pom.xml we have specified specifically it’s version 2.0.23, so it should only download that. Complete Description of the issue: 1. We use pdfbox to extract the text location only of the signature placeholder we placed in a PDF document. 2. Suddenly from pas few days it is not returning the correct location of the placeholder text. 3. What Kirsten has stated are the few use cases when I was trying to debug the issue. 4. But the pattern is completely random, sometime it gives the Text Location correctly, sometime it doesn’t give the coordinates. When I was debugging I found that it doesn’t process the text correctly, sometime combining the two texts which has space in the PDF but it is not reading the space. 5. The only strange part is it suddenly started happening. 6. It is not specific to any document, it is randomly happening to multiple documents. 7. Though I can provide my code with a sample document having issues. Thanks Pragati On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 5:53 AM Chilli Factor <kirs...@chillifactor.co.nz> wrote: > Hi there, > > We use PDFBox for e-signing documents, and it was working until recently. > It has stopped signing individual documents; or signs in the incorrect > place in the document not where the signature merge field was placed to be > signed. > > > 1. When the java processes the PDF file to find the location where to > put the signature in the file, it is behaving strangely. > 2. E.g. if the signature is the last or the first word in the page of > the doc, java isn't able to read this. And also for middle text it combines > the text while processing. > > > It's a bit random as working for merged documents, not single documents. > > Has something changed recently? We've spent a lot of time trying to > resolve it. We've also tried updating to the latest PDFbox version but not > working. > We haven't updated Java or related items on the server. > > Thanks > Kirsten > >
