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[jira] [Commented] (PDFBOX-1853) Bad character mapping in text extraction

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1853?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13875716#comment-13875716 ] 

Maruan Sahyoun commented on PDFBOX-1853:
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Hi,
that’s not a bug. Adobe Reader produces a similar result i.e. most of the text can not be extracted. Rendering a PDF and text extraction are two different things so the fact that the text is visible in a viewing app does not mean that it can be extracted with the same representation. 
BR
Maruan

> Bad character mapping in text extraction
> ----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-1853
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1853
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Text extraction
>    Affects Versions: 1.8.3
>         Environment: Mac OS, Java 6
>            Reporter: Manuel Aristaran
>         Attachments: Anuario_de_Estadisticas_Universitarias_2010.pdf
>
>
> PDFBox returns wrong characters for some of the embeded typographies in the attached PDF.
> pdftohtml (poppler) and mudraw (mupdf) also show a similar issue. Problem does not present itself in Mac OS X Preview.app. 



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