# Text wrapped around images: a known limit

Source: https://epubcc.com/cases/text-wrapped-around-images/ (updated 2026-11-04)

When a paragraph flows around a floating image, the EpubCC engine keeps the image but breaks the paragraph: the narrow lines beside the picture become separate one-line paragraphs, and the caption can land inside a sentence. On an English Wikipedia article pdf_oxide reaches an 8-gram recall of 0.800 against our 0.761.

Problem: Images floated left or right with captions, and body text wrapping around them in a narrower column for a few lines, then returning to full width.

- Limitation: Lines beside a floating image become one-line paragraphs: the gap between the image and the text is read as a column break.
- Limitation: The image is placed where its region starts, which can be in the middle of a sentence.
- Limitation: Captions can be interleaved with body text line by line (in this article: «Page from the manuscript of» between two halves of a sentence).
- Limitation: pdf_oxide extract_text (0.800), OpenDataLoader (0.781) and PDFium (0.774) have a higher 8-gram recall than our engine (0.761) on this document.