From: Nuralanur@...
Date: 2006-11-22T02:03:52+09:00
Subject: Text extraction from PDF files (non-European languages)...?

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Dear all,
 
is there a way of extracting text from a PDF, if the latter
is in some non-European language, such as Arabic or
Chinese?
Under Linux, I have been able to use Ruby in conjunction
with pdftotext for English and other Latin1 encoded texts -
with some problems sometimes for special characters,
but it doesn't seem to work for Unicode ...
 
Is there a Ruby way to do this ?
 
Thank you!
 
Best regards,
 
Axel 
 

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