Hi, I took a quick look but at this point in time I can’t think about an easy solution. Adobe Reader gives the same result when copying and pasting the text. I know not very helpful in your case. As the internal structure of you PDF uses what’s called a Differences Array one would need more time to inspect the characters, the encoding and the glyphs to find if the result could potentially be enhanced. I’m not very optimistic though.
Is there a way to control how the PDF is created? Could that be changed? BR Maruan Sahyoun Am 11.03.2014 um 14:17 schrieb [email protected]: > Found a solution to localize the brackets. > > Only problem i have is: > I only get the right output text file with PDFLib and not with PDFBox. > Cant use PdfLib for documents with more then one page. > > I attach the 2 different outputs > > Zitat von [email protected]: > >> when i open the converted txt file in browser it is displayed correct. >> is there a way to convert the character in pdf to unicode in txt? >> >> like >> >> text U+2308 text >> >> >> Zitat von [email protected]: >> >>> thanks for the advice. I tried copying the character to notepad++ and its >>> the same behavior. If i use pdflib i get blanket squares for the special >>> characters. >>> >>> the characters are these: >>> http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2308/index.htm >>> http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/230b/index.htm >>> >>> i dont have acrobat pro version. >>> >>> added attachement >>> >>> thank you >>> >>> Zitat von Olaf Drümmer <[email protected]>: >>> >>>> If the text encoding or ToUnicode table for that character does not make >>>> the connection to the right Unicode value - then it can't be extracted >>>> properly. >>>> >>>> There are two quick ways to double check: >>>> - use a recent version of Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat, copy the piece >>>> of text in question and paste it into a Unicode enabled text window or >>>> control >>>> - try text extraction with PDFlib TET (cf. >>>> http://www.pdflib.com/download/tet/ ) >>>> >>>> If neither of these get the right Unicode values, you are probably out of >>>> luck. If they are showing the right character, report back. >>>> >>>> You could also use a low level inspection tool (for example in Acrobat >>>> Pro, use Preflight and from the Preflight window's options menu choose >>>> "Explore PDF structure") and drill down to the resp. font resource and >>>> find out whether it has a decent ToUnicode entry or not. >>>> >>>> Olaf >>>> >>>> >>>> --- >>>> >>>> Olaf Druemmer | Managing Director | callas software GmbH | Schoenhauser >>>> Allee 6/7 | 10119 Berlin >>>> Tel +49.30.4439031-0 | Fax +49.30.4416402 | [email protected] >>>> | www.callassoftware.com >>>> >>>> ? PDF Days Europe 2014 - June 16-17, 2014 · Cologne >>>> ? Two days packed with PDF ? Register now at: >>>> ? http://pdfa.org/pdf-days-europe-2014 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Am 10 Mar 2014 um 19:56 schrieb Andreas Düster <[email protected]>: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I am using PDFBox 1.7.0 (unofficial converted .net version from >>>>> http://pdfbox.lehmi.de/) to convert a pdf to text. It works fine for me >>>>> except one thing. >>>>> My Problem is that the pdf contains gaussian brackets which are >>>>> converted to a single letter (right ceil is converted to a "d" and left >>>>> floor one to a "c". I need at least something unique because I want >>>>> parse the text later and I need to localize the brackets. >>>>> I am not sure if thats a problem of PDF box at all. If I copy the >>>>> bracket out of the pdf manually it?s the same behavior. Any idea to help >>>>> me? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks!! >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > <sampleConvertedWithPdflib.txt><sampleConvertedByPDFBox.txt><sample.pdf>
