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   Does anyboy have encountered a pdf, where extractfilepagetext returns no text ?

I thought it was an image, but when opening with Acrobat reader, i can select part of the text, so it's defined as text in the file.

I use extractfilepagetext since a while, but it's first time i found a text returning "nothing"...

any idea is welcome ;-)

Rgds
Eric

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darkv Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 17 Jan 11 Status: Offline Points: 38	Post Options Post Reply Quote darkv Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: ExtractText returns ... Posted: 24 May 11 at 3:08PM
	Does anyboy have encountered a pdf, where extractfilepagetext returns no text ? I thought it was an image, but when opening with Acrobat reader, i can select part of the text, so it's defined as text in the file. I use extractfilepagetext since a while, but it's first time i found a text returning "nothing"... any idea is welcome ;-) Rgds Eric

Ingo Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 29 Oct 05 Status: Offline Points: 3530	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ingo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 24 May 11 at 9:46PM
	Hi Eric! It's not often but sometimes this issue still can raise. Mostly the reason is the creator of the document. For example if internally an old version of the ghostscript- library was used. Older versions of the PDF Creator (before 8.15) are a candidate for this behavior. You can't do anything against it. Sorry. BUT... it's always good to send these files to the official support pages... so perhaps one day... ;-) Cheers, Ingo Edited by Ingo - 24 May 11 at 9:47PM

darkv Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 17 Jan 11 Status: Offline Points: 38	Post Options Post Reply Quote darkv Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 24 May 11 at 11:48PM
	Ingo, Thanks for your reply; I was thinking such a thing. file infos are done by Adobe inDesign CS3 (5.0), Pdf conversion tool : Adobe pdf library 8.0 Pdf release 1.6 Does this fit with your known "incompatible" cases? Rgds Eric

Ingo Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 29 Oct 05 Status: Offline Points: 3530	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ingo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25 May 11 at 6:58AM
	Hi Eric! This is new for me :-( Is it an ebook? ...This could be a reason. If not... please upload your pdf with a description via the official upload pages. Cheers, Ingo

darkv Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 17 Jan 11 Status: Offline Points: 38	Post Options Post Reply Quote darkv Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25 May 11 at 9:05AM
	Ingo, It's a official document from Tax & Incomes people. So ain't no info on how it was built. could you tell me to whom send the file Rgds Eric

Ingo Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 29 Oct 05 Status: Offline Points: 3530	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ingo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25 May 11 at 9:15AM
	Take the official support pages. I've posted the link already in a few older threads. Cheers, Ingo