Extra line after table about pdf2docx

[inzhir]

Thank you for your fast reply!

Fixed code this way

if isinstance(self.parent._parent, Cell):
    delete_paragraph(doc.paragraphs[-1])

(added _parent) and now everything works.

[dothinking]

Many thanks to report this issue.

The root cause is a fact in Word document that an empty line is always created automatically when insert a nested table into a cell. So, a fix is to delete such line -> will be included in next version.

For now, you can modify the source code based on version 0.5.1:

1. Find Blocks.py

>>> import pdf2docx
>>> pdf2docx.page.Blocks.__file__
'd:\\workspace\\github\\pdf2docx\\pdf2docx\\page\\Blocks.py'

2. Check lines 523-538 in method make_docx()

for block in self._instances:
    # make paragraphs
    if block.is_text_image_block():
        # new paragraph
        p = doc.add_paragraph()
        block.make_docx(p)

        pre_table = False # mark block type
    
    # make table
    elif block.is_table_block():
        make_table(block, pre_table)
        pre_table = True # mark block type

# below table processing is necessary for page level only
if isinstance(self.parent, Cell): return

3. Change the above lines 523-538 to as follows

for block in self._instances:
    # make paragraphs
    if block.is_text_image_block():                
        # new paragraph
        p = doc.add_paragraph()
        block.make_docx(p)

        pre_table = False # mark block type
    
    # make table
    elif block.is_table_block():
        make_table(block, pre_table)
        pre_table = True # mark block type

        # NOTE: within a cell, there is always an empty paragraph after table,
        # so, delete it right here
        if isinstance(self.parent, Cell):
            delete_paragraph(doc.paragraphs[-1])

Note to import method delete_paragraph() accordingly:

from ..common.docx import reset_paragraph_format, delete_paragraph

[dothinking]

Ah, my fix was based on dev. Per version 0.5.1, self.parent -> Layout, then Layout._parent -> Cell.

So, thank you for figuring it out