Hello, I think I'm seeing some issues concerning the handling of the Arabic lam-with-alef ligature. I'm attempting to process the PDF here: https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/perspectives/PE100/PE122/RAND_PE122z1.arabic.pdf
When I run the ExtractText command with 2.0.15 I get the following: $ java -jar pdfbox-app-2.0.15.jar ExtractText -encoding UTF-8 RAND_PE122z1.arabic.pdf output.txt $ head output.txt C O R P O R A T I O N منظور تحليلي رؤى خبير بشأن قضايا السياسات اآلنية االتفاق مع إيران األيام التي تلي ... The issue being with the last two lines in the above snippet where my understanding is that the ligature لا was normalized but that the two letters that compose it are in the wrong order. I was thinking that PDFBOX-684 sounded similar, and running the same PDF through 1.8.16 I see the ligature is normalized in the way I think is expected (although the interspersed English-language words are backwards here). $ java -jar pdfbox-app-1.8.16.jar ExtractText -encoding UTF-8 RAND_PE122z1.arabic.pdf output.txt ... $ head output.txt N O I T A R O P R O C منظور تحليلي رؤى خبير بشأن قضايا السياسات الآنية الاتفاق مع إيران الأيام التي تلي ... Does this look like a regression or is there possibly something else I should be trying? Thank you for any assistance. --Elias Peterson --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
