Fixed strip_text argument getting ignored

camelot/utils.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 from __future__ import division
 
+import re
 import os
 import sys
 import random
@@ -405,6 +406,27 @@ def merge_close_lines(ar, line_tol=2):
     return ret
 
 
+def text_strip(text, strip=""):
+    """Strips any characters in `strip` that are present in `text`.
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    text : str
+        Text to process and strip.
+    strip : str, optional (default: '')
+        Characters that should be stripped from `text`.
+    Returns
+    -------
+    stripped : str
+    """
+    if not strip:
+        return text
+
+    stripped = re.sub(
+        r"[{}]".format("".join(map(re.escape, strip))), "", text, re.UNICODE
+    )
+    return stripped
+
+
 # TODO: combine the following functions into a TextProcessor class which
 # applies corresponding transformations sequentially
 # (inspired from sklearn.pipeline.Pipeline)
@@ -456,10 +478,10 @@ def flag_font_size(textline, direction, strip_text=""):
                 fchars = [t[0] for t in chars]
                 if "".join(fchars).strip():
                     flist.append("".join(fchars))
-        fstring = "".join(flist).strip(strip_text)
+        fstring = "".join(flist)
     else:
-        fstring = "".join([t.get_text() for t in textline]).strip(strip_text)
-    return fstring
+        fstring = "".join([t.get_text() for t in textline])
+    return text_strip(fstring, strip_text)
 
 
 def split_textline(table, textline, direction, flag_size=False, strip_text=""):
@@ -574,7 +596,9 @@ def split_textline(table, textline, direction, flag_size=False, strip_text=""):
             )
         else:
             gchars = [t[2].get_text() for t in chars]
-            grouped_chars.append((key[0], key[1], "".join(gchars).strip(strip_text)))
+            grouped_chars.append(
+                (key[0], key[1], text_strip("".join(gchars), strip_text))
+            )
     return grouped_chars
 
 
@@ -678,7 +702,7 @@ def get_table_index(
                 error,
             )
         else:
-            return [(r_idx, c_idx, t.get_text().strip(strip_text))], error
+            return [(r_idx, c_idx, text_strip(t.get_text(), strip_text))], error
 
 
 def compute_accuracy(error_weights):