Manish S N created PDFBOX-5868:
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Summary: PDFBox not extracting text of non-latin languages(tamil,
bengali) properly but adobe reader's save as text does
Key: PDFBOX-5868
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-5868
Project: PDFBox
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Text extraction
Affects Versions: 3.0.3 PDFBox
Environment: Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS x86_64
Reporter: Manish S N
Attachments: adobe_out.txt, multilingual_test.pdf, pdfbox_out.txt
I downloaded the latest executable jar of pdfbox (3.0.3) for testing and used
the export:text command line tool to obtain the results
* the multilingual_test.pdf is the original pdf i made to test multilingual
text extraction.
* the pdfbox_out.txt is the text file produced by pdfbox
* the adobe_out.txt is the text file created by adobe reader's save as text
feature
Observation:
as you can see in the attachment the text file obtained by pdfbox shows weird
unicodes for tamil and bengali (for hindi the charecters are extracted but not
overlapped; japanese seems fine to me). in contrast the text file file obtained
from adobe reader's save as text feature seems fine and copy pasting the text
from my document viewer(evince) also works.
Questions:
# why are the outputs from pdfbox and adobe different?
# what can i do to extract the text from a multilingual pdf correctly?
# Is there a way to apply pattern matching to text in pdf file and declare
matches without extracting the text first? (say if the problem is with fonts
and glyphs)
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My Usecase fyi:
i am trying to extract text from files and run pattern matching to identify pii
in them. making it an app so users can define their own patterns. I am using
apache tika for parsing documents. I noticed problem with extracted PDF text
(other filetypes parse fine). used executable pdfbox jar to conclude that the
_problem is in pdfbox and not in tika._ tested with adobe reader's extract text
to confirm the problem is not with the pdf. i want to extract these
multilingual text to run pattern matching on them alone and do not need to
display the content but only if the pattern is present or not.
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