[PDFBOX-5324] support get unicode from embedded TrueTypeFont cmap

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.24, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.25, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Component/s: Text extraction
• Labels: patch
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Tilman Hausherr
• Reporter: qiang Liu
• Created: 17/Nov/21 05:43
• Updated: 17/Dec/21 06:50
• Resolved: 26/Nov/21 16:23

Description

for some special pdf files like the one I attached, some text is missing from text extraction. after some debug and tests, found out that this can be fixed if we use Cmap from TrueTypeFont too.

I will submit a patch soon

Issue Links

• is related to: PDFBOX-5331 Text "820-01869-U-A" is omitted from PDF doc