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Adrian Romano updated PDFBOX-398:
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Attachment: garbage output.jpg
Added screenshot of garbage output viewed in ultra edit. This file was
extracted with UTF-8 encoding.
> 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
> Attachments: 7.pdf, garbage output.jpg, working output.jpg
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> 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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