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in thread PDF to Text

It works on most lines, but occasionally gets confused and outputs data in a different layout from the original.
I really need it to be accurate because even the original is fiddly to deal with.
It's basically 2 sets of columns of variable blocks of data, that also wrap around from the bottom of the left-hand column to the top of the right hand column on each page, then wraps to the top of the left-hand column on the next page etc ...
eg (short example):
name1 1,2,3,4 8,9,10 name3 1,2,3,4,5 name 1,2,34, name4 1,2,3,4 5,6,7,
but what i sometimes get is:
name1 1,2,3,4 8,9,10 name3 1,2,3,4,5 1,2,3,4 name4 name 1,2,34, 5,6,7
Ther's a lot more of this ... also, the separations between names, nums, left, right cols are variable...