Updated extractText()

[Tom-Evers]

Added changes proposed in issue #17

[Tom-Evers]

Some lines contain multiple draw operations, for example if underlined text is drawn text first, underlining ("________") second at the same vertical coordinates.

The toggle 'skip_intertwining_text' will by default skip the next line if intertwining text is detected.
When set to false, it will simply insert text after the previous line.

Indentation is now also properly handled.

[deven96]

Does this output the text in the correct order?

[Tom-Evers]

It should, yeah, but it has been some time since I worked on this...

The problem is: if the PDF itself has the text in the wrong order but relocated with weird offsets, there's a good chance it'll still mess up the order. Then again, the method that was used before my commit would then still be worse.

[deven96]

Good work though mate

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[Tom-Evers]

Can this be tested/pulled?

[joegrange]

Looks like a good improvement. I'm also having white space issues that this should improve.

[Tom-Evers]

It should only improve things, and never break anything that isn't broken already.

Could this be pulled please?

[TZanke]

I would like to have the newest changes also, but it doesnt look like anyone will build a new package. Any PyPDF2 fork out there with newer packages then PyPDF2 itself? Even pdfrw is not maintained very well, so do i miss some brand new python PDF engine on github where all the effort goes to?

[MartinThoma]

@TZanke I just became the maintainer this month - and PyPDF2 is moving again 🚀

[MartinThoma]

It seems like this PR breaks a couple of things. Could you please have a look?

[MartinThoma]

This PR addressed #17, but #924 fixed it (+ many other things). Hence I close it.

Thank you for the PR! I hope I can respond quicker in future to such improvements :-)