Re: [iText-questions] Problems with extracting text from PDF using Braille Font

2011-08-09 Thread Saad Shams
You are right. I have found a free font and it converts the braille characters to normal characters. But as you mentioned that fonts are not standard for different geographical regions/natives. So, the only way I can do it right is to process the braille character via image processing. Like conside

Re: [iText-questions] Problems with extracting text from PDF using Braille Font

2011-08-07 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
One way that braille can be done is with a font - that is true. However, not all fonts (be they Braille or not) are created equal. Also, not all PDF producers do a good job of maintaining searchability. Without an actual PDF, we can't tell you what's wrong. (you also don't mention what version

[iText-questions] Problems with extracting text from PDF using Braille Font

2011-08-07 Thread Saad Shams
Hello Community, Braille is a special font for blind people. I am trying to decode the text written in Braille font in a PDF file and output the normal text. But the PDFTextExtractor (in iTextSharp) cannot handle this font. Is it possible in any other way? The normal pdf can display this font so