There doesn't seem to be any way to get ActualText values

[stevesimmons]

Describe the bug (mandatory)

I have an externally generated PDF where words like "sort" and "office" have ligature-like groups of letters wrapped in ActualText.

Here is the "rt" in "sort" in the source PDF:

/Span<</ActualText (rt) >> BDC
8.0101776 0 Td <92> Tj
EMC

PyMyPDF's page.get_text() extracts them as the unicode replacement character �. The original characters appear to be not recoverable, even with the "xml" or "rawdict" extraction options.

To Reproduce (mandatory)

Try page.get_text() to extract text including the /ActualText span above. Get back "�".

Expected behavior (optional)

It would be great to have an option like TEXT_PRESERVE_ACTUALTEXT that returns the ActualText value "rt" (in the above example) rather than the replacement <92>.

Your configuration (mandatory)

• Operating system: Linux, Ubuntu
• Python version: 3.11.4
• PyMuPDF version: 1.23.2, wheel

[JorjMcKie]

see #2876

[JorjMcKie]

This issue has been resolved with version 1.23.14.