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Martijn Brinkers commented on PDFBOX-860:
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It appears that there is a difference between running on Linux (which I do) and
running on Windows. If ICU jar is missing, on Linux the unicode "fi" character
is used. On Windows "fi" is converted to "?". If the ICU jar is available in
Windows, conversion seem to work fine. It could be that the default encoding on
Linux (at least Ubuntu) is UTF-8 and perhaps on Windows US-ASCII?
> 'fi' getting converted to '?'
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>
> Key: PDFBOX-860
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-860
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Text extraction
> Affects Versions: 1.2.1
> Environment: Solaris 10
> Reporter: Saurabh Mehrotra
> Attachments: INSI-SURVIVAL-GUIDE-4-JOURNALISTS.zip, new_evidence.zip
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>
> Hi
> I am trying to use PDF box 1.2.1 version to extract text from PDF files.
> The following issue is observed in the extracted text:
> 1. Combination of the characters 'fi' is converted to a '?'
> example: first becomes ?rst
> classifier becomes classi?er
> find becomes ?nd
> Is this a known bug? Can some setting of the PDF box be turned of to prevent
> this?
> Thanks & Regards
> Saurabh
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