[jira] [Comment Edited] (TIKA-3305) How do you handle PDFs with custom encoding?

["Tilman Hausherr (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Tilman Hausherr edited comment on TIKA-3305 at 2/24/21, 3:41 AM:
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No there isn't. Not even Adobe Reader can extract text. You'll have to use OCR. See also this answer:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39485920


was (Author: tilman):
No there isn't. You'll have to use OCR. See also this answer:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39485920

> How do you handle PDFs with custom encoding?
> --------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: TIKA-3305
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-3305
>             Project: Tika
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Nicholas DiPiazza
>            Priority: Major
>         Attachments: custom-encoding.pdf
>
>
> how do you parse a pdf with custom encoding? when i parse it i get garbage text. is there some way to map it back to utf8 reliably? 
> browsers can render it, i suppose there must be some way to do it? 
> attached an example.



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