Thread: How to Copy & Paste text from Chinese text PDF?
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Old 08-09-2014, 09:22 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by Jellby View Post
I guess the "custom encoding" is the problem. The copied text would come in that custom encoding. Can you extract the font, copy-paste the text and display it with the extracted font?
Exactly right. If you are copying and pasting Chinese text into MS Word, the font encoding needs to be correctly mapped to Unicode-16 characters. This PDF's encoding is not. You would have to figure out how the encoded characters map to Unicode-16 and write a mapping filter.
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