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Matt Sheppard commented on TIKA-911:
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Confirmed that it still occurs for me on a different mac (with freshly
downloaded PDF and tika-app-1.1.jar).
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mercury:Downloads matt$ system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType
Software:
System Software Overview:
System Version: Mac OS X 10.7.3 (11D50d)
Kernel Version: Darwin 11.3.0
Boot Volume: Macintosh HD
Boot Mode: Normal
Computer Name: Mercury
User Name: Matthew Sheppard (matt)
Secure Virtual Memory: Enabled
64-bit Kernel and Extensions: Yes
Time since boot: 3 days 1:10
mercury:Downloads matt$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_31"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_31-b04-415-11M3635)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.6-b01-415, mixed mode)
mercury:Downloads matt$ java -jar tika-app-1.1.jar Rust\ Biosecurity\
Brochure.pdf
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><html
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
<head>
<meta name="xmpTPg:NPages" content="2"/>
<meta name="Creation-Date" content="2008-06-06T02:53:07Z"/>
<meta name="trapped" content="False"/>
<meta name="created" content="Fri Jun 06 12:53:07 EST 2008"/>
<meta name="Content-Length" content="755665"/>
<meta name="Last-Modified" content="2008-06-06T02:53:23Z"/>
<meta name="producer" content="Adobe PDF Library 7.0"/>
<meta name="Content-Type" content="application/pdf"/>
<meta name="resourceName" content="Rust Biosecurity Brochure.pdf"/>
<meta name="creator" content="Adobe InDesign CS2 (4.0.5)"/>
<title/>
</head>
<body><div class="page"><p/>
<p>How can I help?
When youâre overseas:
⢠�wherever�possible,�donât�visit�crops�â�contact�with�
</p>
<p>growing�crops�greatly�increases�the�risk�of�contaminating�
footwear�or�clothing;�
...[snip]...
<p>Initial detection
points of exotic wheat
rust incursions
</p>
<p>stem rust in wheat.
(soURce: BRAd collIs)</p>
<p/>
</div>
</body></html>
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Note that the ?s reported appear to display differently on this machine.
Will attach a copy of the output as a file for reference.
> Converted PDF document contains question marks in place of spaces and
> inconsistent case
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: TIKA-911
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-911
> Project: Tika
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 1.1
> Reporter: Matt Sheppard
> Attachments: Rust Biosecurity Brochure.pdf
>
>
> The PDF document at
> http://www.grdc.com.au/uploads/documents/Rust%20Biosecurity%20Brochure.pdf,
> when converted with tika v1.1 using
> {code}
> $ java -jar tika-app-1.1.jar Rust\ Biosecurity\ Brochure.pdf
> {code}
> Produces substantially worse output than xpdf's pdftotext program.
> Specifically, we see...
> Some 'spaces' replaced with question marks
> {noformat}
> ...
> <body><div class="page"><p/>
> <p>How can I help?
> When you're overseas:
> • ?wherever?possible,?don't?visit?crops?—?contact?with?
> </p>
> <p>growing?crops?greatly?increases?the?risk?of?contaminating?
> footwear?or?clothing;?
> ...
> {noformat}
> and some odd case conversions
> {noformat}
> <p>stem rust in wheat.
> (soURce: BRAd collIs)</p>
> <p/>
> </div>
> {noformat}
> (The original document seems to contain "SOURCE: BRAD COLLIS" all in upper
> case.
> To compare that with pdftotext
> {code}
> $ ./xpdfbin-linux-3.03/bin32/pdftotext -enc UTF-8 -q ~/Rust\ Biosecurity\
> Brochure.pdf
> {code}
> This does not output the question marks, and produces "Source: BRAD COLLIS"
> at the end there, both of which seem to be improvements. Note that it does,
> however, produce a number of ^G characters which are not desireable.
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