extracted text contains character names instead of the characters themselves
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Key: PDFBOX-595
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-595
Project: PDFBox
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Text extraction
Affects Versions: 0.8.0-incubator
Reporter: Godmar Back
PDF files created by ScanSoft PDFCreate! aren't properly extracted.
For instance, this code:
BT
0 0 0 rg
0 Tc 0 Tw /F1 12 Tf
1 0 0 1 42 739 Tm
[(T)hi)s)1(i)s)1(a)6(t)(e)(s))2(P)(D)F)4(c)(r))(a)(t)(e)(d)0(w)i)t)(h)0(S)c)(a)(ns)of))2(P)(D)F)C)r))(a)(t)(e)(!))s)1(pr))nt)(e)r)7(dr))ve)(r)7(f)r)m)2(a)6(.ht)(m)l)2(f))
1 0 0 1 438 739 Tm
[(l)e)6(vi)e)(w)e)(d)0(i)n)0(F)i)r))(f)x)0(on)
1 0 0 1 42 725 Tm
[(W)(i)ndow)s)1(X)P)(.)0(T)oda)y)0(i)s)1(01/)(07/)(2010.)
ET
is extracted as:
This is a test PDF created with Scansoft PDFCreate!'s printer driver from a
.html file viewed in Firefox on
Windows XP. Today is zero1slashzero7slashtwozero1zero.
pdftotext (Poppler) extracts:
This is a test PDF created with Scansoft PDFCreate!'s printer driver from a
.html file viewed in Firefox on Windows XP. Today is 01/07/2010.
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