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extract arabic text from pdf #591

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dihia-lanasri opened this issue Dec 2, 2020 · 7 comments
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extract arabic text from pdf #591

dihia-lanasri opened this issue Dec 2, 2020 · 7 comments
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is-bug From a users perspective, this is a bug - a violation of the expected behavior with a compliant PDF workflow-text-extraction From a users perspective, text extraction is the affected feature/workflow

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Hello;

I have a pdf in arabic language text. I need to extract its text. but I obtain something like:
f˘£˘∏˘≤â GCh∫ GCeù¢, b˘Éa˘∏˘á J†°˘Ée˘æ«á eø h’já Gdû°∏∞ fëƒ
fl«˘ª˘Éä Gd˘ÓL˘ÄÚ Gdü°˘ëôGhjÚ eƒL¡á d∏û°©

How can I decode it? utf-8 doesn't work.
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this is not utf-8
did you figured work around ?

@MartinThoma MartinThoma added the is-bug From a users perspective, this is a bug - a violation of the expected behavior with a compliant PDF label Apr 7, 2022
@MartinThoma MartinThoma added the workflow-text-extraction From a users perspective, text extraction is the affected feature/workflow label Apr 16, 2022
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#464 might help to solve this

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@dihia-lanasri ,

can you provide a pdf to evaluate extraction. thanks

MartinThoma added a commit that referenced this issue Jun 6, 2022
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TST: Text extraction for non-latin alphabets
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See #591
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TST: Text extraction for non-latin alphabets (#954)
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See #591
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MartinThoma commented Jun 6, 2022 •
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@pubpub-zz I've added one in #954 :-) The issue looks different now. I think it might be related to the different writing directions in one document.

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Under analysis

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@dihia-lanasri , some work has been done about text extraction but arabic being written right to left make me difficult to evaluate. can you give your feed backs?

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I assume this works now. Please let us know if anybody encounters any issues!

pubpub-zz added a commit to pubpub-zz/pypdf that referenced this issue Oct 29, 2022
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create PdfWriterInterface to prevent recursive import
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includes also reactivation of test_extract_text_hello_world as py-pdf#591 is closed
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