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Re: [Freefont-bugs] New glyphs are unixxxx while other glyphs are uniXXX
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James Cloos |
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Re: [Freefont-bugs] New glyphs are unixxxx while other glyphs are uniXXXX. |
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Sat, 06 Jul 2013 13:30:48 -0400 |
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>>>>> "SW" == Steve White <address@hidden> writes:
SW> So far, the results are erratic, but
SW> * nothing created on Linux copies Hindi text correctly from PDF files.
The proper solution for text extraction from PDF files, especially for
complex and/or r2l scripts, is for the PDF creator to include ActualText
objects in the PDF.
Nothing else can work for all scripts.
Cf §10.8.3 Replacement Text in PDFReference17.pdf; the same is §14.9.4
in PDF32000_2008.pdf.
-JimC
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