Rows from table in PDF return as one unbroken string (no indivdual cells)

[dmeekerpcg]

When I use the old tabula-java, it will split the cells out of the table but it is not working in tabula-sharp, I just get a whole row/line without individual data broken out. Maybe this is because the table is non-uniform? (different column counts on different rows)

Example table (cannot attach PDF as it has personal info)

I am using the latest version of PDFPig but that didn't seem to work. See example code below, maybe i'm doing something wrong with the syntax, just trying to iterate through the row

 using (PdfDocument document = PdfDocument.Open(path, new ParsingOptions() { ClipPaths = false }))
        {
            ObjectExtractor oe = new ObjectExtractor(document);
            PageArea page = oe.Extract(Page);

            // detect canditate table zones
            SimpleNurminenDetectionAlgorithm detector = new SimpleNurminenDetectionAlgorithm();
            var regions = detector.Detect(page);

            IExtractionAlgorithm ea = new BasicExtractionAlgorithm();
            List<Table> tables = ea.Extract(page.GetArea(regions[0].BoundingBox)); // take first candidate area
            var table = tables[0];
            var rows = table.Rows;

            string result = "";
            string test = rows[0][0].GetText(); // <---- testing first cell
            Run.PrintLog("Test: " + test);

            foreach (var r in rows)
            {
                foreach (RectangularTextContainer txt in r)
                {
                    result += txt.GetText() + "|";   //<---- for each cell (?)
                }
                result += System.Environment.NewLine;
            }
            Run.PrintLog("Tab result: " + result);
        }

[jansteyn]

I think this is probably due to GetText doing a trim at the end and characters with a space trailing is picked up as 2 textelements within a textelement in my PDF.
`
public override string GetText(bool useLineReturns)
{
if (textElements.Count == 0)
{
return "";
}

    StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
    Utils.Sort(textElements, new ILL_DEFINED_ORDER());
    double bottom = textElements[0].Bottom;
    foreach (TextChunk textElement in textElements)
    {
        if (useLineReturns && textElement.Bottom < bottom)
        {
            stringBuilder.Append('\r');
        }

        stringBuilder.Append(textElement.GetText());
        bottom = textElement.Bottom;
    }

    return stringBuilder.ToString().Trim();
}`