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TDWiseley
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Scrambled font

Post by TDWiseley »

Occasionally we need to parse a PDF document, and the text seems to be scrambled. The Fonts tab of Document Properties in Adobe Reader may say

Tahoma+1(Embedded)
Type: TrueType
Encoding: Built-in

If I try to extract text using either '(string)ACPDFCREACTIVEX.IacObject["Text"] or axPDFCreactiveX1.GetRawPageText(1), I get something similar to "=0B?,'1-7,;?:" rather than the actual text displayed (font issue?). PDF Suite Destop Edition displays the correct text, but I suspect it is using the funky font to display it.

How do I extract the text as displayed in the PDF?
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Re: Scrambled font

Post by Joan »

What version of the PDF Creator are you using?
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TDWiseley
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Re: Scrambled font

Post by TDWiseley »

I got essentially the same results in both 3.1 and 4.0
Jose
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Re: Scrambled font

Post by Jose »

Hello,

We had another customer with a similar issue and setting the OptimizeDocument option resolved this situation.

Example:
axPDFCreactiveX1.OptimizeDocument 1


Thanks
Jose
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