[PDFBOX-55] Invalid character while extracting text from a chinese pdf

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.1.0
• Component/s: Text extraction
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Anonymous
• Created: 18/Apr/05 08:59
• Updated: 30/Mar/10 08:23
• Resolved: 10/Mar/10 18:37

Description

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Originally submitted by seblaunay on 2005-04-18 01:59.

First, thanks for this wonderful api.
I have a problem extracting text from a pdf document
provided with adobe acrobat reader : ENUtxt.pdf.
The pdf contains text with chinese fonts which cannot
be extracted.
But, it contains also this text (extract with xpdf or
acrobat reader) :
---------------------------------------
Lorem ipsum dolor
ad minim
---------------------------------------

The problem is i obtain on my Writer with
PDFTextStripper.WriteText something like this :
---------------------------------------
-PSFNJQTVNEPMPS
BENJOJNWFSOJBNôH
---------------------------------------
And between this valid characters, there are these
invalid characters :
0x0, 0x1, 0x5, 0x6, 0x18.

Because, i sax the content of a document into a xml,
the resulting xml is not valid because it contains
invalid characters...

[attachment on SourceForge]
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/download.php?group_id=78314&atid=552832&aid=1185058&file_id=130664
ENUtxt.pdf (application/pdf), 7582 bytes
The pdf used

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Document to test added.

Issue Links

• depends upon: PDFBOX-654 Extracting CJK text