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[Martin Wildam <623438@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think (one of) the question(s) is: What does a PDF viewer rely on,
when selecting text? Do they take the bounding boxes or do they display
selected text using the given font information (which is missing in your
HTML output)?

It could be that the viewer applications would need the font information and you don't provide that in the html.
And another question is if hocr2pdf would be able to interpret the font information if it would be given.

Basically without getting this correct, I don't gain much of having a
sandvich PDF, so I find this problem quite essential.

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Font size not correct in merged sandvich PDF
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/623438
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Status in Linux port of Cuneiform: New

Bug description:
After processing with Cuneiform for Linux 1.0.0 and hOCR to PDF converter, version 0.7.4 (should be the most current version) I get a sandvich pdf that looks nice until I select text.

See the sample 5AADFEE1-0000.* files in the attachment and the result.pdf.
The effect is shown in screen087.png

For another file (Test10pages.pdf) the effect is either worse - basically I cannot really select any more text to copy because I only can guess where to move with the mouse.

It looks like that the font size in the HTML is somehow not correct - I am not an expert, but this link might help you:
http://www.emdpi.com/fontsize.html