Rework .extract_words and add use_text_flow param

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Taking @samkit-jain's smart question about sort-order into account, this
commit reworks `.extract_words`, making the sorting more explicit, and
adding an option to *not* sort, via `use_text_flow=True`, which follows
the original PDF's text flow, rather than presorting all characters top-down,
left-right.

To do so required rethinking the word-delineation logic,
which in turn motivated a shift toward a more object-oriented approach
(especially to keep track of settings without passing them from function
to function). Now `.extract_text`'s logic is encapsulated in a new class,
`TextExtractor`.

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Jeremy Singer-Vine

2020-08-30 18:16:50 -04:00

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