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Which Line Breaks in Extracted PDF Text Are Real? Rejoining Wrapped Lines from Character Coordinates

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Extract text from a PDF and you get far too many line breaks. pdfium (the engine behind Chrome's PDF viewer) returns a break after every visual line, so sentences are cut in the middle of paragraphs. Feed that to an LLM, a search index or a summarizer, and the broken line structure can hurt the res…

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  1. 2026-09-27 09:38 · DEV Community — AI
    Which Line Breaks in Extracted PDF Text Are Real? Rejoining Wrapped Lines from Character Coordinates

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