Hi Hesham, > I am using PDFBox version 1.4 to extract text from a PDF, but all the words > having "fi" inside them are extracted wrong. You can test the following 1 > page PDF sample: http://www.4shared.com/document/GAMnpE9A/the_fi_char.html > > I am aware of the post: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-860 > which mentions that this is now fixed if I use the ICU4J jar, which already > exists inside the PDFBox 1.4 jar as I can see, but still such words are > parsed wrong. Am I missing something here ?
I checked your file and get the same results with PDFBox 1.4. But from version 1.5 on everything seems to be OK (apart from my own ligature problems…). So I suggest to update your PDFBox version. Note that version 1.6 definitely needs the additional ICU jar (see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-970). All the best Thomas
