Thomas ,
Thank you a lot for the information.
I have just tested it now and it extracts those characters fine.
I will upgrade to this version now.
Best regards ,
Hesham
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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
