I have noticed the method PDFTextStripper.inspectFontEncoding(...). Would this help with that problem ?
Best regards , Hesham --------------------------------------------- Included message : Hello , I am using PDFBox 1.4 to extract text from an Arabic PDF file. The problem with Arabic is that it is a right to left language. The words are read reversed. Can this be fixed ? Here is a 1 page Arabic PDF to try it : http://www.4shared.com/document/k6Mrafej/arabic_book.html Best regards , Hesham

