[jira] [Commented] (TIKA-469) The Parser is not correctly outputting Arabic text documents

["Sergio Fernández (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Sergio Fernández commented on TIKA-469:
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one additional example: http://www.who.int/entity/tb/publications/global_report/gtbr12_execsummary_ar.pdf
                
> The Parser is not correctly outputting Arabic text documents
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: TIKA-469
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-469
>             Project: Tika
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: parser
>    Affects Versions: 0.7
>         Environment: Windows XP
>            Reporter: Robert Cullen
>         Attachments: ASF.LICENSE.NOT.GRANTED--fever_factsheet_arabic.pdf, ASF.LICENSE.NOT.GRANTED--TEST_WORD.doc
>
>
> The parser is not preserving the character encoding when parsing documents in Arabic UTF-8, specifically with .pdf and .doc.  The resulting character output is undechipherable or just question-mark symbols.

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