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Villu Ruusmann commented on PDFBOX-595:
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I tried text extraction with PDFBox 1.0.1-SNAPSHOT and got the following
exception instead:
Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Not a number: -
at org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSNumber.get(COSNumber.java:100)
at
org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFStreamParser.parseNextToken(PDFStreamParser.java:255)
at
org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFStreamParser.parse(PDFStreamParser.java:101)
at org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSStream.getStreamTokens(COSStream.java:119)
at
org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processSubStream(PDFStreamEngine.java:235)
at
org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processStream(PDFStreamEngine.java:207)
at
org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.processPage(PDFTextStripper.java:367)
at
org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.processPages(PDFTextStripper.java:291)
at
org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.writeText(PDFTextStripper.java:247)
at
org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.getText(PDFTextStripper.java:180)
> extracted text contains character names instead of the characters themselves
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: PDFBOX-595
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-595
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Text extraction
> Affects Versions: 0.8.0-incubator
> Reporter: Godmar Back
> Attachments: scansoftbugtestcase.pdf
>
>
> PDF files created by ScanSoft PDFCreate! aren't properly extracted.
> For instance, this code:
> BT
> 0 0 0 rg
> 0 Tc 0 Tw /F1 12 Tf
> 1 0 0 1 42 739 Tm
> [(T)hi)s)1(i)s)1(a)6(t)(e)(s))2(P)(D)F)4(c)(r))(a)(t)(e)(d)0(w)i)t)(h)0(S)c)(a)(ns)of))2(P)(D)F)C)r))(a)(t)(e)(!))s)1(pr))nt)(e)r)7(dr))ve)(r)7(f)r)m)2(a)6(.ht)(m)l)2(f))
> 1 0 0 1 438 739 Tm
> [(l)e)6(vi)e)(w)e)(d)0(i)n)0(F)i)r))(f)x)0(on)
> 1 0 0 1 42 725 Tm
> [(W)(i)ndow)s)1(X)P)(.)0(T)oda)y)0(i)s)1(01/)(07/)(2010.)
> ET
> is extracted as:
> This is a test PDF created with Scansoft PDFCreate!'s printer driver from a
> .html file viewed in Firefox on
> Windows XP. Today is zero1slashzero7slashtwozero1zero.
> pdftotext (Poppler) extracts:
> This is a test PDF created with Scansoft PDFCreate!'s printer driver from a
> .html file viewed in Firefox on Windows XP. Today is 01/07/2010.
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