Ouch. If you cannot copy and paste the text from Reader
successfully, that shows that it is Very Hard or
impossible.
In your case, it is probably impossible. The font used
is a subset, and Reader's failure to translate the glyph indexes into characters
leads me to believe that the subset doesn't contain character mapping
information (quite legal, just a royal pain).
Your only real recourse in cases like this is OCR (optical
character recognition). Fortunately, such cases aren't all that
common. It's entirely possible however, that you're working with nothing
but this type of PDF, so that may be small consolation.
I wish you luck.
--Mark Storer
Senior Software
Engineer
Cardiff.com
import legalese.Disclaimer;
Disclaimer<Cardiff>
DisCard = null;
I'm trying to use iTextSharp.text.pdf.parser.PdfTextExtractor.GetTextFromPage(reader,
1);
on
the attached PDF but I don't get the text back, if I take the byte array and
look at the contents then
the
text block is not not in ASCII form although all the co-ordinate structure is
correct eg anything between the () is not in ASCII form, how is it possible to
get the text from this pdf
thanks
Paul
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