---
id: 4c5b9fcd-feac-4cce-8773-6a9f745858e0
type: fix
title: "Clean PDF extraction text for Foundry textareas"
tags: [vagabond-rpg, foundryvtt, pdf-extraction, fix]
importance: 0.5
confidence: 0.8
created: "2025-12-18T19:34:33.879088+00:00"
updated: "2025-12-18T19:34:33.879088+00:00"
---

When extracting text from PDFs for Foundry VTT compendiums: 1) Strip HTML tags since textareas show raw text not rendered HTML, 2) Fix mid-sentence line breaks from PDF column formatting by joining lines that don't end in sentence punctuation (.\!?:). This ensures descriptions display cleanly in sheet textareas.