Extracting Arabic text from a PDF

[Hesham G.]

http://markmail.org/thread/r2bbln57hjng7bxu

Hello ,

Thanks a lot for the suggestions Andreas.

I implemented (3) solutions trying to fix the problem ... But they all didn't 
work :

I tried the following :
ex(1) :
 String pageData = stripper.getText( pdfFile );
 PDTrueTypeFont font = PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF( pdfFile, "images/arabic.ttf" );
 // Draw the string with that font.
 
ex(2) :
 String pageData = stripper.getText( pdfFile );
 pageData = new String( pageData.getBytes(), "UTF-8" );
 PDTrueTypeFont font = PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF( pdfFile, "images/arabic.ttf" );
 // Draw the string with that font.
 
ex(3) :
 String pageData = stripper.getText( pdfFile );
 PDSimpleFont font = PDType1Font.TIMES_ROMAN;
 font.setEncoding( new WinAnsiEncoding() );
 // Draw the string with that font.

Am I doing anything wrong here ?

Thanks ,
Hesham