Missing literals

[Bardo-Konrad]

Description of the bug

In some documents, get_text outputs the wrong literals in words. For instance the text in the pdf reads "Dort machten die Handelsschiffe auf der Überfahrt" but I get "Dort machten die Handelsschiye auf der Überfahrt".
It happens with ff and probably others. When copying from the document in a PDF reader like SumatraPDF, I also get "Dort machten die Handelsschiye auf der Überfahrt".

PyMuPDF version

1.23.x or earlier

Operating system

Windows

Python version

3.11

[JorjMcKie]

You did not include a reproducing file and neither any code snippet.
So this post does not yet qualify as a bug and we are forced to do guesswork:
Your file may use ligatures in the text. "ff" is one of the 6 standard ligatures in Latin text - which means that 1 Unicode (and one glyph) is used to represent multiple characters.
By default, ligatures are passed through in text extraction - however, depending on your output device, they should still look ok.
You can try with a modified text extraction flag bit combination to confirm. E.g. flags=0. This will dissolve ligatures into their components. For details see documentation.

[JorjMcKie]

Closing this for lack of response over an extended time interval.
In a future release we will change the text flag default for searches that will no longer preserve ligatures.

[Bardo-Konrad]

Thank you for your effort. I changed what you suggested silently, so you were not notified. I apologize for you feeling like your reply was in vain.