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[jira] [Commented] (PDFBOX-5532) COSString field non-ascii characters

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Michael Klink commented on PDFBOX-5532:
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{quote}I am reading a pdf document but in the COSString field non-ascii characters are being retrieved. What can be the motive?{quote}

Please be aware that the encoding of strings in content streams can be completely arbitrary and is defined by the respectively current font.

Your {{replaceText}} method makes very specific assumptions which only are true in simple PDFs.

> COSString field non-ascii characters
> ------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-5532
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-5532
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: David
>            Priority: Major
>
>  
> Hello,
> I am reading a pdf document but in the COSString field non-ascii characters are being retrieved. What can be the motive? I am using version pdfbox-2.0.24.jar
> This would be an example of the pdf document parsed:
> COSInt\{50} 
> COSInt\{0} 
> PDFOperator\{Td} 
> COSString\{åÅÕãÁâ@} 
> PDFOperator\{Tj} 
> COSFloat\{770.18} 
> COSInt\{0} 
> PDFOperator\{Td} 
> COSString\{×–Ž–©@} 
> PDFOperator\{Tj} 
> COSFloat\{520.21} 
> COSInt\{0}
> Function java:
>  public static PDDocument replaceText(PDDocument document, String searchString, String replacement) throws IOException {
> 		 	    
> 		    PDPageTree pages = document.getDocumentCatalog().getPages();
> 		    for (PDPage page : pages) {
> 		    			    	
> 		        PDFStreamParser parser = new PDFStreamParser(page);
> 		        parser.parse();
> 		        List tokens = parser.getTokens();
> 		        for (int j = 0; j < tokens.size(); j++) {
> 		            Object next = tokens.get(j);
> 		           
> 		            if (next instanceof Operator) {
> 		                Operator op = (Operator) next;
> 		             
> 		                 if (op.getName().equals("Tj")) {
> 		                    COSString previous = (COSString) tokens.get(j - 1);		                 
> 		                    String string = previous.getString();
> 		                    System.out.println("previous:=" + string);
> 		                                
> 		                
> 		                    if (string.equals(searchString)){
> 		                    	 COSString sx = new COSString(replacement);		
> 		                    	previous.setValue(sx.getBytes());
> 		                    	
> 		                    }
> 		                }
> 		            }
> 		        }
> 		        // now that the tokens are updated we will replace the page content stream.
> 		        PDStream updatedStream = new PDStream(document);
> 		        OutputStream out = updatedStream.createOutputStream();
> 		        ContentStreamWriter tokenWriter = new ContentStreamWriter(out);
> 		        tokenWriter.writeTokens(tokens);
> 		        page.setContents(updatedStream);
> 		        out.close();
> 		        
> 		        
> 		    }
> 		    return document;
> 		}
> 	 



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