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Posted to users@pdfbox.apache.org by pa...@agencyport.com on 2012/03/13 18:11:57 UTC

Converting a form with internal font to image

I have a pdf:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28209500/Pages%20from%2011-12%20CA%20Apps.pdf

which appears to use an internal font encoding, so I am unable to extract the text with PDFBox. (Actually, I have lots and lots of forms with this same problem).

I thought as an alternative, I could use pdfbox to convert the form to an image, then use OCR to process the pdf. However, when I convert to an image with pdfbox, the text comes out as gibberish as well.

So, am I correct in assuming that for pdfs which have internal fonts, there is no way to get at the actual text of the font using pdfbox, even as an image? If I know that it's impossible I can start looking at alternatives to pdfbox...

Patrick Nichols