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WIP: Ref 888: Enhanced PDF to text parsing to merge boxed informaton into a single word

Syed Osama requested to merge syedosamaanwer/poppler:ENHANCEMENT_pdf_to_text_merge_boxed_text into master

Currently Poppler pdftotext parser tends to extract filled box information into multiple characters, as explained in the issue: #888 #Fixes: #888

In order to fix this, logic have been added to merge single characters in the same word, if they lie within the threshold.

Sample PDF: application_form_undergraduate_2.pdf

Old Parsing Output: old_parsing_output.txt

New Parsing Output: new_parsing_output.txt

Edited by Syed Osama

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