Text extracted seems to be encoded

[Elliot Tison]

Hello,

I ofter use this gem with no issue. However, for one client, I cannot extract text from several PDF files.

The text extracted is like this:

\n \u0004 \n \u0005 \t \u0004 \b \a \u0003 \u0001 \u0006 \u0006 \u0005 \u0004 \u0003 \u0002 \u0001\n\n\n.......

Is this a known limitation like mentioned in your documentation ("due to the way it has been stored, or the use of invalid bytes")?

Many thanks.

Best

elliot

[James Healy]

Hi Elliot,

It's hard to know without seeing a sample file. There's cases where
pdf-reader can be improved to handle rare approaches to encoding, and
other cases where there's no way to extract the text.

If you're able to share a file directly to my address, I'm happy to
take a quick look.

James

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