Adding one more output to getText...

[gbrault]

I wanted to keep tables left to right as it was in the original text.
As an example, use https://srdata.nist.gov/solubility/IUPAC/SDS-65/SDS-65.pdf on page 47
The attached pdf is a jupyter notbook which shows what is this variable spacing left-to right flavor getText could provide.
I tried the processPage function on few books and it seems working properly.

What do you think?
Nist.pdf

[JorjMcKie]

Hey this is cool!
I have been planning to write a utility for a long time, that preserves the layout of a PDF page. There have also been multiple requests in that direction.
I would welcome a Pull Request and put this in the https://github.com/pymupdf/PyMuPDF-Utilities repo as a dedicated folder - let's say keep-text-layout, or whatever you want to choose.
I already have a few isolated scripts which solve one or the other problem. It would be good to have a growing selection of samples like this.
Your script however is much closer to an ideal, "universal" solution than anything I have done so far (although I could name a few PDFs which would still kill it 😉 ... but we are getting there).
If you are interested, I can also see if I can open that repo for update accees to you ...