GetPageText(4) returns cryptic characters

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christoph81 Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 08 Aug 11 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 1	Post Options Post Reply Quote christoph81 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: GetPageText(4) returns cryptic characters Posted: 08 Aug 11 at 11:14AM
	Hello everybody, im trying your sdk and with most of my pdf file i get good result. Now i tried another pdf file with embedded text and i get cryptic results for the words. After that i tried to copy the text out of the pdf with the foxit pdf viewer. And i also get the same strange results. A customer of us said it could be related to the fonts used in the pdf file. Best regards Christoph

Rowan Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 10 Jan 09 Status: Offline Points: 398	Post Options Post Reply Quote Rowan Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 08 Aug 11 at 2:38PM
	Hi Christoph, There's a small chance that the text that you're trying to extract text from contains Unicode characters and these aren't being decoded when you get the results? The result is encoded using UTF-8 in the Delphi and DLL editions of the library. However, if you cannot copy the text out of the PDF using Foxit PDF Viewer either, then that means that there's probably an issue with the cmap, character lookup map, which means that the PDF is somewhat corrupt and you won't be able to extract text from it until it is repaired (using Acrobat or a similar tool which can repair PDFs). Cheers, - Rowan.

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