From 4a49e0340fea5b1bf071601be2c8970f52fb5c13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Date: Fri, 3 May 2024 07:44:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Remove trailing whitespace from PAGE XML <Unicode> output

Fixes: 577e8a8b93a9 ("Add PAGE XML renderer / export (#4214)")
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
---
 src/api/pagerenderer.cpp | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/api/pagerenderer.cpp b/src/api/pagerenderer.cpp
index 0f53dd73c5..9c27ab8316 100644
--- a/src/api/pagerenderer.cpp
+++ b/src/api/pagerenderer.cpp
@@ -873,7 +873,11 @@ char *TessBaseAPI::GetPAGEText(ETEXT_DESC *monitor, int page_number) {
     if (res_it->IsAtBeginningOf(RIL_TEXTLINE)) {
       // writing_direction_before = writing_direction;
       line_conf = ((res_it->Confidence(RIL_TEXTLINE)) / 100.);
-      line_content << HOcrEscape(res_it->GetUTF8Text(RIL_TEXTLINE)).c_str();
+      std::string textline = res_it->GetUTF8Text(RIL_TEXTLINE);
+      if (textline.back() == '\n') {
+        textline.erase(textline.length() - 1);
+      }
+      line_content << HOcrEscape(textline.c_str());
       line_str << "\t\t\t<TextLine id=\"r" << rcnt << "l" << lcnt << "\" ";
       if (writing_direction != 0 &&
           writing_direction != writing_direction_block) {
@@ -1078,12 +1082,10 @@ char *TessBaseAPI::GetPAGEText(ETEXT_DESC *monitor, int page_number) {
       region_content << line_content.str();
       line_content.str("");
       if (!last_word_in_cblock) {
-        region_content << "\n\t\t\t\t\t";
+        region_content << '\n';
       }
       lcnt++;
       wcnt = 0;
-    } else {
-      line_content << " ";
     }
 
     // Write region information to the output