[jira] [Created] (PDFBOX-1956) Wrong character on conversion PDF to TXT

["Vicente (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Vicente created PDFBOX-1956:
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             Summary: Wrong character on conversion PDF to TXT
                 Key: PDFBOX-1956
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1956
             Project: PDFBox
          Issue Type: Task
          Components: Parsing
    Affects Versions: 1.8.4
         Environment: Windows
            Reporter: Vicente


I am trying to convert PDF to TXT and some PDF, after converted, the String present wrong character. Could be UNICODE problem ? Can somebody help me ?

the code 


public class PDFTextParser {
    
    PDFParser parser;
    String parsedText;
    PDFTextStripper pdfStripper;
    PDDocument pdDoc;
    COSDocument cosDoc;
    PDDocumentInformation pdDocInfo;
    
    // PDFTextParser Constructor 
    public PDFTextParser() {
    }
    
    // Extract text from PDF Document
    public String pdftoText(String fileName) {
        
        System.out.println("Parsing text from PDF file " + fileName + "....");
        File f = new File(fileName);
        
        if (!f.isFile()) {
            System.out.println("File " + fileName + " does not exist.");
            return null;
        }
        
        try {
            parser = new PDFParser(new FileInputStream(f));
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println("Unable to open PDF Parser.");
            return null;
        }
        
        try {
            parser.parse();
            cosDoc = parser.getDocument();
            pdfStripper = new PDFTextStripper();
            pdDoc = new PDDocument(cosDoc);
            parsedText = pdfStripper.getText(pdDoc); 
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println("An exception occured in parsing the PDF Document.");
            e.printStackTrace();
            try {
                   if (cosDoc != null) cosDoc.close();
                   if (pdDoc != null) pdDoc.close();
               } catch (Exception e1) {
               e.printStackTrace();
            }
            return null;
        }      
        System.out.println("Done.");
        return parsedText;
    }
    



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