Zotero reader renders some text incorrectly

haug

I'm somewhat puzzled by this but since it is only Zotero Reader that does this, I suppose it's a problem with Zotero (or its rendering engine). Here is a screenshot from Zotero Reader illustrating the problem.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u107415/dk6jkzamm7e87fnc08k1.png

The yellow annotation is fine, everything as expected. But, as you can see, the text in the blue annotation is all chopped up and unreadable (in the annotation).

Initially I thought that thus was a problem with faulty OCR, but when I open the same file in other PDF readers (Apple Preview, Nitro, Adobe Acrobat), the text is shown/copied correctly. Here is an example from Acrobat:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u107415/nt019sdcsstgplarlrv5.png

Any idea what might be going wrong here?

dstillman

It certainly looks like there's still a problem with the OCR based on the Acrobat screenshot. Different apps have different handling for imperfect text layers. If you send the PDF to support@zotero.org with a link to this thread, we can take a look.

grahamperrin

@haug please, is the PDF publicly available?

I sought "through his own laughter Bill signals to Mavis and Alex" in Google, no match.

haug

@dstillman I sent the document to the support email address.

@grahamperrin The title of the book is "Analyzing Causual Conversation" by Suzanne Eggins and Diana Slade.