[jira] [Commented] (PDFBOX-1039) Arabic Text Extraction using PDFTextStripper working partially

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

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Franklin commented on PDFBOX-1039:
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Thanks Andreas,
  Is there anyway I can handle this by myself. 

  Is there anyways I can detect this also?

Regards,
Franklin

> Arabic Text Extraction using PDFTextStripper working partially
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-1039
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1039
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Text extraction
>    Affects Versions: 1.5.0
>         Environment: Windows XP, Java 1.6
>            Reporter: Franklin
>            Assignee: Andreas Lehmkühler
>              Labels: arabic, textExtraction
>         Attachments: TestPDFCreator.pdf, TestWord.pdf
>
>   Original Estimate: 168h
>  Remaining Estimate: 168h
>
> I have been trying to extract the contents of PDF file (so as to index it with lucene). The PDF file contains arabic.
> Both PDF files contain the exact same information. The strange thing is PDFTextStripper extract data from one file correctly(gives proper arabic) but not from the other(gives complete question marks ???? or [][][][][]  )
> Below is the code being used
> import java.io.File;
> import java.io.FileInputStream;
> import java.io.IOException;
> import org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSDocument;
> import org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser;
> import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
> import org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper;
>  
> public class TesExtraction {
>  
> 	// Extract text from PDF Document
> 	static String pdftoText(String fileName) {
> 		PDFParser parser;
> 		String parsedText = null;;
> 		PDFTextStripper pdfStripper = null;
> 		PDDocument pdDoc = null;
> 		COSDocument cosDoc = null;
> 		File file = new File(fileName);
> 		if (!file.isFile()) {
> 			System.err.println("File " + fileName + " does not exist.");
> 			return null;
> 		}
> 		try 
> 		{
> 			parser = new PDFParser(new FileInputStream(file));
> 		} catch (IOException e) {
> 			System.err.println("Unable to open PDF Parser. " + e.getMessage());
> 			return null;
> 		}
> 		try 
> 		{
> 			parser.parse();
> 			cosDoc = parser.getDocument();
> 			pdfStripper = new PDFTextStripper("CP-1252");
> 			pdDoc = new PDDocument(cosDoc);
> 			pdfStripper.setStartPage(1);
> 			pdfStripper.setEndPage(5);
> 			parsedText = pdfStripper.getText(pdDoc);
> 		} catch (Exception e) {
> 			System.err
> 					.println("An exception occured in parsing the PDF Document."
> 							+ e.getMessage());
> 		} finally {
> 			try {
> 				if (cosDoc != null)
> 					cosDoc.close();
> 				if (pdDoc != null)
> 					pdDoc.close();
> 			} catch (Exception e) {
> 				e.printStackTrace();
> 			}
> 		}
> 		return parsedText;
> 	}
> 	public static void main(String args[])
> 	{
> 		System.out.println(pdftoText("C:\\LuceneTest\\Data\\TestWord.pdf"));
> 		System.out.println(pdftoText("C:\\LuceneTest\\Data\\TestPDFCreator.pdf"));
> 	}
>  
> }
> NOTE: Where can I upload the pdf files ?
>  

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