Hi,
Gesendet: Sa, 04. Sep 2010 Von: reinhard schwab<reinhard.sch...@aon.at> > extracted text with > > PDDocument doc = PDDocument.load(new URL( > > "http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hearst/irbook/print/chap10.pdf";)); > PDFTextStripper stripper = new PDFTextStripper(); > stripper.writeText(doc, new OutputStreamWriter(System.out)); > > looks like this > > ¡ ¢¤£¦¥¨§ª© ®©°¯±¢²§ª³ ´¶µ¸·¹¢º© » ¥¼µ½§?·?¥??¼´²Â > "!$#&%ª')(+* ,-%ª.?/0%?132"%?45.?6 > ,-.7'84:97!;.7'< "!>=?.ª!>'?*�...@b.c4®* > ACM Press > New York > Addison-Wesley > D)EGFIH J>KMLON8P$QRH ESPUT?V?WYXZE>TR[\PUQ]L_^`E>ababE>cedgfUahX;ijija The mentioned pdf uses type3 fonts for most of the text. Those font type consists of glyphs for every single letter and doesn't have any encoding. In most cases those kind of text content can't be extracted, even the acrobat reader won't do it (try it by selecting some of the text and just c&p it to a texteditor. The text will be scrambled). BR Andreas Lehmkühler
