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Cristian Vat edited comment on TIKA-469 at 2/16/11 8:05 PM:
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Possible this is a problem with the PDF or installed/available fonts?
Reasoning: Tried opening using Tika GUI app and got garbled text. Then I tried
selecting all text from PDF in Adobe Reader and pasting it into Word/Notepad++.
This also resulted in what looks like exactly the same garbled text.
(Environment: Win7, latest tika trunk from svn built on JDK 1.6)
was (Author: cristian.vat):
Possible this is a problem with the PDF or installed/available fonts?
Reasoning: Tried opening using Tika GUI app and got garbled text. Then I tried
selecting all text from PDF in Adobe Reader and pasting it into Word/Notepad++.
This also resulted in what looks like exactly the same garbled text.
> The Parser is not correctly outputting Arabic text documents
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> Key: TIKA-469
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-469
> Project: Tika
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: parser
> Affects Versions: 0.7
> Environment: Windows XP
> Reporter: Robert Cullen
> Attachments: TEST_WORD.doc, fever_factsheet_arabic.pdf
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> The parser is not preserving the character encoding when parsing documents in
> Arabic UTF-8, specifically with .pdf and .doc. The resulting character
> output is undechipherable or just question-mark symbols.
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