Support paragraphs grouping in the same div

[fjaguero]

Hello,

I have a question regarding the conversion to HTML of the PDF file: Is it possible to detect the paragraphs?

In the following screenshot you can see that the each line of a paragraph is a div, so there is no way (without playing with tops, etc) to know where each paragraph ends.

Demo PDF

Example:

Right now:

<div class="textLayer">
 <div>Line of text of the first p,</div>
 <div>another line of text of the first one</div>
 <div>This is another p</div>
</div>

Expected:

<div class="textLayer">
 <div>Line of text of the first p, another line of text of the first one</div>
 <div>This is another p</div>
</div>

The same file has the expected paragraph separation when opening it in native viewers like the Adobe one or in Safari web viewer. We receive that info when doing a copy-paste event of the selected text.

[fjaguero]

I see #4629 as a related solution. I need to check if that code works.

[timvandermeij]

I'm closing this as a duplicate of many other issues in the 4-text-selection category (and others listed in #4629).

[francescovallone]

Hello sorry if I'm reopening this issue, but I would like to know if this feature has been added to PDF.js. I couldn't find any solution to grouping paragraphs on the same span instead of having different spans for each line of the text.