From 546a9e81eb76d8331092e489dc1e7a14dbe55c1a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Breidenbach <jbreiden@google.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 11:28:30 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix #1900: intraword spacing for slightly better pdf
 copy-paste performance

---
 src/api/pdfrenderer.cpp | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/api/pdfrenderer.cpp b/src/api/pdfrenderer.cpp
index db5449e08e..3495cd7f25 100644
--- a/src/api/pdfrenderer.cpp
+++ b/src/api/pdfrenderer.cpp
@@ -466,6 +466,10 @@ char* TessPDFRenderer::GetPDFTextObjects(TessBaseAPI* api,
       }
       res_it->Next(RIL_SYMBOL);
     } while (!res_it->Empty(RIL_BLOCK) && !res_it->IsAtBeginningOf(RIL_WORD));
+    if (res_it->IsAtBeginningOf(RIL_WORD)) {
+      pdf_word += "0020";
+      pdf_word_len++;
+    }
     if (word_length > 0 && pdf_word_len > 0) {
       double h_stretch =
           kCharWidth * prec(100.0 * word_length / (fontsize * pdf_word_len));