Russian extraction encoding failure
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Key: PDFBOX-398
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-398
Project: PDFBox
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Text extraction
Affects Versions: 0.7.3, 0.8.0-incubator
Environment: Windows XP 32-bit, CentOS 5.2 32-bit
Reporter: Adrian Romano
I am doing some text extraction of Russian documents and some of them aren't
extracting correctly. I am using PDFTextStripper.
When I extract on windows using UTF-8 encoding, the output is garbage.
When I extract on linux using any encoding, the output is garbage.
The only way I can get viable output is when I extract the PDF on windows, but
don't specify an encoding. If I do this the output is correct when viewed with
Ultra Edit, but not in notepad. I can view the output in notepad only after I
convert the file to utf-8 with iconv.
It appears to me that the encoding isn't being read correctly from the PDF, and
when it's
outputted as UTF-8, it is being double encoded or something. I can detect this
double encoding, and then
run the file with no encoding specified, then convert it to UTF-8 using iconv,
and it is OK.
But, this method does not work on linux, as I cannot get the file to extract
correctly using any encoding
on linux.
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