Preserve blank lines within text in cell

[gnaneshwar441]

Hello,

In the example below there are 6 lines (including blank) within a cell in a table

Line1
Line2
Line3
Line4
<blank>
Line5

After I ran extract_tables() I'm getting all the lines as expected except for the blank line
Output:

Line1\n
Line2\n
Line3\n
Line4\n
Line5

I was expecting:

Line1\n
Line2\n
Line3\n
Line4\n
\n
Line5

so that when i split the text within a cell by '\n' I must get ['Line1','Line2','Line3','Line4','','Line5']

What table settings must I apply to preserve blank lines within a cell?

Thanks

[samkit-jain]

Hi @gnaneshwar441 Appreciate your interest in the library. A newline is added when the difference between the doctop of one character and the doctop of the next character is greater than y_tolerance (defaults to 3). It only adds a single new line and does not add multiple new lines. Meaning, if there is say hello written in the header and world in the footer on a page with nothing in between, the result will be

hello
world

and not

hello


...many new lines...


world

If you could share the PDF with any sensitive information redacted, then I can have a look and see if there is a workaround that might be of help to you.