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Chris A. Mattmann updated TIKA-911: ----------------------------------- Component/s: parser > 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 > Components: parser > Affects Versions: 1.1 > Reporter: Matt Sheppard > Attachments: Rust Biosecurity Brochure.pdf, Rust Biosecurity > Brochure.pdf.html > > > 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. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira