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

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

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1956?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

John Hewson closed PDFBOX-1956.
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> 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
>              Labels: parser
>         Attachments: example b.pdf, itext_pdfabc-sample.pdf
>
>
> 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 ?
> I oberved that the problem when try to convert PDF, created by PDFCreator, in Text. The character are wrong. Any suggesting ?
> 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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