Text refers to the font/ text and/or is styled with some of the text formatting properties.

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Problems caused by Arial font in PDF files

The Arial Font Arial is a very popular font with a contemporary sans serif design. The font family is also on the font families...
Mark Stephens
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What are CID fonts?

There are 2 main font technologies used in PDF font files (Postscript/Type1 and Truetype). There is also a ‘merged’ format which borrows features from...
Mark Stephens
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How is text stored in a PDF file?

Text is defined in PDF files by a Font object and a set of TJ commands. So you will see something like this in...
Mark Stephens
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Why is my PDF Producer showing up in Chinese…

I was recently sent a PDF file where some of the metadata appeared to be wrong. In particular, the PRODUCER field was appearing in...
Mark Stephens
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PDF Text extraction – Why can I not extract…

Every so often people send us files and ask why we cannot extract the text from them – I mean we can view the...
Mark Stephens
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How to find out if a PDF file has…

Because it turned out that people wanted to make PDF files accessible and extract content from PDF documents (and not just view them), Adobe...
Mark Stephens
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