[jira] [Closed] (PDFBOX-903) Unicode text getting mangled via TextToPDF + PDFTextStripper

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

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-903?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

John Hewson closed PDFBOX-903.
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    Resolution: Duplicate

This issue has been superseded by PDFBOX-922.

> Unicode text getting mangled via TextToPDF + PDFTextStripper
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-903
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-903
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Text extraction, Writing
>    Affects Versions: 1.4.0
>            Reporter: Nick Burch
>         Attachments: TestUnicodeText.java, TestUnicodeText.java
>
>
> I'm trying to round trip some text through PDFBox, but I'm finding that along the way unicode text is getting mangled and coming back as the wrong characters.
> The process I'm following is to use TextToPDF to generate a PDF, then reading it back in again with PDFTextStripper. I'm not sure if the problem is coming about during generation or reading yet, but I've a nasty feeling there might be an issue with both. (I've seen issues with code that does one part of the other)
> Attached is a unit test written against trunk. It creates a series of Reader objects based on both ASCII and non-ASCII text, creates a PDF using TextToPDF, then compares the text. It includes a test that verifies that the corruption isn't caused by the readers, and another that fails showing that the text was corrupted by the roundtrip.
> Ideally the test would also look in the dictionary to check what was stored there, but I don't know enough about the file format to manage that. Will hopefully look into that shortly though.



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