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Franklin commented on PDFBOX-679:
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I have tried the extraction of Arabic like this
PDFParser parser = new PDFParser(is);
parser.parse();
cosDoc = parser.getDocument();
String docText = null;
PDFTextStripper stripper = new PDFTextStripper();
PDDocument document = new PDDocument(cosDoc);
docText = stripper.getText(document);
The docText is proper arabic when I try it out with your pdf file (zzz.pdf).
However I get ????? when I try it out with my pdf file.
Is there any reason for this ?
> Corruption of Arabic output due to Japanese bug fix
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: PDFBOX-679
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-679
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 1.1.0
> Reporter: Andreas Lehmkühler
> Fix For: 1.2.0
>
> Attachments: zzz.pdf
>
>
> The recent Japanese bug fix in org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont
> defines a set of encoding names that are given special CJK treatment. This
> set is too broad. For example, it stipulates that the 'Identity-H' encoding
> should be processed as JIS.
> We have Arabic PDFs where compound Arabic glyphs use the 'Identity-H'
> encoding. In pdfBox 1.0.0 they used to output Arabic but now they output
> garbage, because the Arabic unicode data is sent to the CJK converter.
> I've copied that description from the users mailing list [1]
> [1] http://markmail.org/thread/w5iof5hr3yqhthsp
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