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Subject: Re: pdfbox not working for my pdf file.
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:45:38 +0100
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Hi,

it seems that some PDF files created using TeX will do badly with =
PDFBox.
I have a version of
=
http://www.ams.org/era/2003-09-03/S1079-6762-03-00108-2/S1079-6762-03-0010=
8-2.pdf
which produces similar results to your file:

BXC4BXBVCCCAC7C6C1BV CABXCBBXBTCABVC0 BTC6C6C7CDC6BVBXC5BXC6CCCB...

My impression is that this is due to some errors in the chain
TeX -> DVI -> ps -> pdf
probably due to some earlier versions of dvips (< 5.97?).
I can create a readable PDF file from the respective DVI file using =
different tools like dvipdfmx.
So I am not sure wether this is actually a PDFBox bug or a problem with =
invalid PDF files, although JHOVE claims that the file is well-formed =
and valid. I suppose that a character or glyph table is not recognised =
or found, and Jhove doesn't check "the glyph descriptions of embedded =
fonts".

Actually, the version of the document mentioned above will crash both =
PDFBox 7.3 and 8.0
(Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: =
org/bouncycastle/jce/provider/BouncyCastleProvider),
while pdftotext seems to do a reasonable job.

On my file mentioned, pdftotext will produce

=C4 =CC=CA=C7=C6=C1 =CA =CB =CA =C0 =C6=C6=C7=CD=C6 =C5 =C6=CC=CB =C7 =CC=C0=
 =C5 =CA=C1 =C6 =C5 =CC=C0 =C5 =CC=C1 =C4 =CB=C7 =C1 =CC =CE=D3=D0=D9=D1

which is no more helpful than the result from PDFBox...

I suppose that anybody willing to try may play around with the files =
available at
http://www.emis.de/journals/ERA-AMS/2003-01-003/2003-01-003.html

All the best
Thomas

Am 12.12.2009 um 18:58 schrieb Ernesto De Santis:

> Hi,
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> I've a pdf file that pdfbox cant read. Pdfbox read it without errors,
> but the output is only in an estrange format, like codes. Always a 'a'
> letter and two numbers: a34 a85 a94 a92......
>=20
> I reported it as a bug time ago, without news about it.
>=20
> My file was generated with a latex, I use Kile editor in ubuntu OS.
> This is the bug issue:
>=20
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-534
>=20
>=20
> Regards,
> Ernesto.
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> users-digest-help@pdfbox.apache.org escribi=F3:
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>> Asunto:
>> Re: pdfbox not working for my pdf file.
>> De:
>> Thomas Fischer <fischer.th@aon.at>
>> Fecha:
>> Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:57:19 +0100
>> Para:
>> users@pdfbox.apache.org
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>> Para:
>> users@pdfbox.apache.org
>>=20
>>=20
>> Hi,
>>=20
>> I've been testing PDFBox on a number of different (mathematical) PDF =
files, and my experience shows that PDFBox works in principle on all PDF =
files that are not image based, with some specific errors depending on =
the the type and creation of the file. If you create a PDF file by =
binding images together then this file can't be read by PDFBox.
>> An easy test is to try to copy text from your file using any PDF =
reader, e.g. Adobe's. If you can copy text, PDFBox should be able to =
read it.
>>=20
>> Cheers
>> Thomas
>>=20
>> Am 09.12.2009 um 13:38 schrieb <shalini.popuri@wipro.com>:
>>=20
>>=20
>>> Hi,
>>> Can pdfbox works for all types of pdf files??
>>> My pdf file size is 6MB.But its not working fine with
>>> PDFTextStripper...ie...stripperobject.getText(doc);
>>> its not working fine....
>>> please let me know whether this can be used for all types of pdf =
files?
>>> if not,How one can decide whether a particular file is compatible =
with
>>> pdfbox??
>>> Thanks in advance....!
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