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[jira] Updated: (PDFBOX-776) Text extraction gibberish after ghostscript update

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-776?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Kevin Pearcey updated PDFBOX-776:
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    Attachment: test-870.pdf
                test-871.pdf

Example pdfs - Something has changed between ghostscript 8.70 vs 8.71 in the generation of the pdf and the embedded font/text information which pdfbox does not currently handle.

> Text extraction gibberish after ghostscript update
> --------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-776
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-776
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: FontBox, Text extraction
>    Affects Versions: 1.2.1
>            Reporter: Kevin Pearcey
>         Attachments: test-870.pdf, test-871.pdf
>
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> I have a test pdf document that is generated using ps2pdf from ghostscript.
> If I use ghostscript 8.70 then pdfbox will correctly extract the text
> If I use ghostscript 8.71 then pdfbox will not correctly extract the text (same byte count but gibberish characters).
> I will also note, that I had to update poppler to 0.14 to get it to correctly extract text from the test-871.pdf, the previous version would only extract the correct text from text-870.pdf.
> Attached will be the pdf generated using the same original postscript file but run using ghostscript 8.70 vs 8.71.

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