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John Hewson closed PDFBOX-2382.
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    Resolution: Not a Problem

This is a problem with how the PDF file has been generated, the Unicode text 
has not been correctly embedded. Adobe Acrobat cannot extract this text either.

This is caused a bug and/or limitation in OpenOffice's PDF exporter, you might 
want to report this on the OpenOffice Bugzilla. I don't see any relevant open 
issues, so I can't offer any workarounds, sorry.

> Arabic compound words are displayed incorrectly
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-2382
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2382
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Text extraction
>    Affects Versions: 1.8.6
>         Environment: Windows 7, NetBeans 8.0, Java 8
>            Reporter: Ahmet
>         Attachments: arabicDoc2.doc, arabicDoc2.pdf
>
>
> Hi, I am using pdfBox (1.8.6) for converting Arabic pdf files (not images of 
> texts but real texts) to html. PdfBox works really good in most cases 
> however, it does have problems in recognizing compound characters. I am 
> attaching you a sample pdf file. In that e.g. I get 
> الفغاني  but I should be getting  
> الأفغاني (الأفغاني). The 
> pdfBox misses the bit highlighted red.   The same is valid for:  ا 
> (pdfBox output) --- الله (الله)  Has this maybe to do 
> with the encodings? I hope you can help me on this matter.
> I know this was somewhat reported and the results said that this issue is due 
> to how the pdf file is generated. Is there a way to generate a "correct" pdf 
> file so PDFBox does perform correct text extraction? I created the attached 
> file using OpenOffice 4.0. The original document is in MS Word format and was 
> converted with OpenOffice into pdf. 



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