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Jukka Zitting resolved PDFBOX-373.
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Resolution: Fixed
Assignee: Jukka Zitting
Good point, thanks!
I committed a slightly modified version of your patch (I merged the if
statement with the preceding one) in revision 703273.
> (null) printed when characters cannot be decoded during text extraction
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>
> Key: PDFBOX-373
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-373
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Parsing
> Affects Versions: 0.8.0-incubator
> Reporter: Brian Carrier
> Assignee: Jukka Zitting
> Fix For: 0.8.0-incubator
>
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> We have some PDF files where the TO_UNICODE map is corrupt and PDFBox cannot
> extract the text. font.encode() returns null and
> PDFStreamEngine.showString() adds the null to the result, which is then
> printed as "(null)".
> Here is a patch (against the trunk) that replaces the null with "?".
> --- PDFStreamEngine.java 2008-09-17 16:09:13.529318500 -0400
> +++ PDFStreamEngine-new.java 2008-09-17 16:12:51.617318500 -0400
> @@ -422,6 +422,11 @@
> }
> }
>
> + // Replace a null entry with "?" so it is not printed as "(null)"
> + if (c == null)
> + {
> + c = "?";
> + }
> totalStringWidth += width;
> stringResult.append( c );
> }
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