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[jira] [Commented] (PDFBOX-2451) Only gibberish extracted from certain PDF files

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2451?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=14182623#comment-14182623 ] 

Maruan Sahyoun commented on PDFBOX-2451:
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The text can not be extracted correctly as there is no mapping within the PDF. Using Adobe Acrobat the same result - gibberish text - is achieved.

BTW it’s always a good test to try copy & pasting the text or text export using Adobe Reader / Adobe Acrobat. 

> Only gibberish extracted from certain PDF files
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>                 Key: PDFBOX-2451
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2451
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Stefan Postema
>         Attachments: ALG 2010-05-19 03 bijlage 1 -  besluitenlijst dagelijks bestuur d d  10 februari 2010.pdf, tika-formatted-text.png, tika-metadata.png
>
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> I was told to report a bug here. There are problems with extracting text from PDF files in Dutch. The bug was reported in issue TIKA-1095 (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1095). The problem can be reproduced with the latest Tika version.
> The extracted Text only shows gibberish (or in other cases question marks and incorrect characters).
> It was suggested it could be a font problem. Could this be looked into?



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