Unicode is an international encoding standard for use with different languages and scripts, by which each letter, digit, or symbol is assigned a unique numeric value that applies across different platforms and programs.
Recently I have been looking at an issue for one of our potential clients. The text extraction was not working correctly due to an array out of bounds exception being thrown when certain pdf pages were encountered. Unicode 3.0 allows you to define any character a 16 bit (2 byte) value. And is used internally…
This post was written in response to a request about how PDF text extraction works. If you have a specific PDF question, please feel free to let us know and we will try to make a blog post to answer it. Text is defined in PDF files by a Font object and a set of…
