Greg, How are you pulling your text out? The technique I used is referenced in the below link, and it worked great for me:
http://blog.cutterscrossing.com/index.cfm/2007/12/3/CF8-PDF-Manipulation-Pulling-Text-Out Steve "Cutter" Blades Adobe Certified Professional Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer _____________________________ http://blog.cutterscrossing.com Greg Giotopoulos wrote: > I am having trouble extracting text from a pdf. Specifically, I have found > that when the text is extracted there are spaces inserted into random places. > For example: > > This sample text > > will be extracted as: > > Th is s a mpl e te x t > > Problem is that it seems to happen in random places in the text so I have > been unable to grab a clean version. I've tried changing the encoding but > have been unable to get to the root of this problem. > > Is this a cfpdf issue? Or does it have something to do with the source file? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:304115 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
