[PDFBOX-5155] Error extracting text from PDF - Can't read the embedded Type1 font FDFBJU+NewsGothic

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.22, 2.0.23
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.24, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Component/s: Text extraction
• Environment: Java 11
• Assignee: Tilman Hausherr
• Reporter: nithin nambiar
• Created: 07/Apr/21 15:59
• Updated: 11/Jun/21 06:08
• Resolved: 25/May/21 18:19

Description

When i try to extract text from command line using pdfbox verision 2.0.22 and 2.023 I get the following error. The pdf is customer specific one, I can't share it here. Is this error because this particular font is not supported by pdfbox?

Apr 07, 2021 1:55:06 PM org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont loadUnicodeCmap WARNING: Invalid ToUnicode CMap in font FDFBJU+NewsGothic Apr 07, 2021 1:55:06 PM org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDType1Font <init> SEVERE: Can't read the embedded Type1 font FDFBJU+NewsGothic java.io.IOException: Expected INTEGER or REAL but got NAME at org.apache.fontbox.type1.Type1Parser.arrayToNumbers(Type1Parser.java:256) at org.apache.fontbox.type1.Type1Parser.readSimpleValue(Type1Parser.java:168) at org.apache.fontbox.type1.Type1Parser.parseASCII(Type1Parser.java:139) at org.apache.fontbox.type1.Type1Parser.parse(Type1Parser.java:61) at org.apache.fontbox.type1.Type1Font.createWithSegments(Type1Font.java:85) at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDType1Font.<init>(PDType1Font.java:263) at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFontFactory.createFont(PDFontFactory.java:76) at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDResources.getFont(PDResources.java:146) at org.apache.pdfbox.contentstream.operator.text.SetFontAndSize.process(SetFontAndSize.java:66) at org.apache.pdfbox.contentstream.PDFStreamEngine.processOperator(PDFStreamEngine.java:933) at org.apache.pdfbox.contentstream.PDFStreamEngine.processStreamOperators(PDFStreamEngine.java:515) at org.apache.pdfbox.contentstream.PDFStreamEngine.processStream(PDFStreamEngine.java:489) at org.apache.pdfbox.contentstream.PDFStreamEngine.processPage(PDFStreamEngine.java:156) at org.apache.pdfbox.text.LegacyPDFStreamEngine.processPage(LegacyPDFStreamEngine.java:144) at org.apache.pdfbox.text.PDFTextStripper.processPage(PDFTextStripper.java:394) at org.apache.pdfbox.text.PDFTextStripper.processPages(PDFTextStripper.java:322) at org.apache.pdfbox.text.PDFTextStripper.writeText(PDFTextStripper.java:269) at org.apache.pdfbox.tools.ExtractText.extractPages(ExtractText.java:377) at org.apache.pdfbox.tools.ExtractText.startExtraction(ExtractText.java:274) at org.apache.pdfbox.tools.ExtractText.main(ExtractText.java:97) at org.apache.pdfbox.tools.PDFBox.main(PDFBox.java:60)