From 4e107bd45b249f4e5e69eee18a000400a06b06da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeremy Singer-Vine Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 17:24:19 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Return None if extracting_text from char-less obj ... instead of raising exception --- pdfplumber/utils.py | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/pdfplumber/utils.py b/pdfplumber/utils.py index 3f2f41a..e69cb6e 100644 --- a/pdfplumber/utils.py +++ b/pdfplumber/utils.py @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ def collate_line(line_chars, tolerance=0): def extract_text(chars, x_tolerance=0, y_tolerance=0): if len(chars) == 0: - raise Exception("List of chars is empty.") + return None get_0 = itemgetter(0) get_1 = itemgetter(1)