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John Hewson edited comment on PDFBOX-2382 at 9/26/14 8:47 AM:
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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 by 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. Maybe try using a
different Arabic font in the .doc file?
was (Author: jahewson):
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 by 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. Maybe try using a
different Arabic font?
> Arabic compound words are displayed incorrectly
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>
> 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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