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[jira] [Updated] (PDFBOX-4737) Text extraction is gibberish

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-4737?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Tilman Hausherr updated PDFBOX-4737:
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    Attachment: obfuscateTest_Duplicate_2_3.pdf

> Text extraction is gibberish
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>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-4737
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-4737
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.18
>            Reporter: Jorge Spinsanti
>            Priority: Major
>         Attachments: noUnicodeMapping.pdf, obfuscateTest_Duplicate_2_3.pdf
>
>
> As it was discussed on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-4549 there are many PDFs where the text extraction is gibberish.
> Perhaps you can add two modes (strict/lax) to text extraction to avoid gibberish if not useful. Add a file to analyze the problem.
> [^noUnicodeMapping.pdf]



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