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PDF Unicode Mapping Error

Just because you can select the text in a PDF, it doesn't mean that you have good text to search. If when analyzing a PDF to see if it meets the PDF/A compliance standard you see an error like this:


. . . it is a sign that the PDF software you're using can't interpret the text embedded in the document. There will not be poor quality OCR to search, but completely garbled. text So for a PDF like this:


. . . instead of text like this to search:


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. . . you may searching something like this:


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