title: PDFBox 2 Column Issue How To Check Beads
body: <p>I have <a href="http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/PDF/A-8.8.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/PDF/A-8.8.pdf</a> that I'm trying to parse using PDFBox which has 2 columns.  I want the text to be parsed so that the columns are separated, however when I run it through PDFBox it does not separate the 2 columns, rather it concatenates lines from both columns together.  </p>
  
  <p>I've read <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-448" rel="nofollow">https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-448</a> which says that some PDF's don't have article/beads that can be used and so the parsing will always be wrong.  I have tried using <code>stripper.setShouldSeparateByBeads(true)</code> </p>
  
  <p>How can I check this if it has beads or not?  I haven't found any reading material regarding this concept except for on questions about PDFBox's column parsing.</p>