Hello Mr Paulo,
I know the direct way for extracting text but the problem is that i want to
extract arabic text from pdf,
when i extract text from pdf using iText i get the page stream with iText
PRStream, thE arabic text come with strange codes
(038f-00ac) and i want to convert these codes to original unicode by using CMap,
My question, where cmap in font dictionary
the stream i get with iText is:
/TagSuspect <</TagSuspect /Ordering >>BDC /P <</MCID 0/Lang (ar-EG)>> BDC BT
/F1 14.04 Tf
1 0 0 1 518.02 707.14 Tm
/GS10 gs
0 g
/GS11 gs
0 G
[<0003>4<03A2>5<039F039B>] TJ
...
<object number="5" category="DICTIONARY" type="/Font" subtype="/Type0">
<DICTIONARY>
<INDIRECT key="/DescendantFonts" number="6" generation="0" value="6 0 R"
/>
<NAME key="/BaseFont" value="/Arial" />
<NAME key="/Type" value="/Font" />
<NAME key="/Encoding" value="/Identity-H" />
<NAME key="/Subtype" value="/Type0" />
<INDIRECT key="/ToUnicode" number="30" generation="0" value="30 0 R" />
</DICTIONARY>
</object>
where CMap itself so that i can map these chaaracter codes to its unicode??
> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 17:52:05 +0100
> From: pgpsoa...@gmail.com
> To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Extract CMap from pdf file!
>
> This is an easy one, the ToUnicode cmap is in the font dictionary. You
> can get the font dictionary from the page resources. Of course,
> there's a direct way to extract text from a PDF using iText without
> having to reinvent the wheel.
>
> Paulo
>
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Mohammed Mostafa
> <mohammed_mostafa1...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I ask about how can i extract ToUnicode CMap from PDF file using iText
> > libray?
> >
> > i am using iText PRStream to retrieve page stream from pdf but page stream
> > not include CMap!!
> >
> > wait your reply fastly please...
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mohammed
> >
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