Bug 707045

Summary:	Space characters translated to Invalid Unicode
Product:	MuPDF	Reporter:	Jorj <jorj.x.mckie>
Component:	mupdf	Assignee:	MuPDF bugs <mupdf-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P4
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	PC
OS:	All
Customer:		Word Size:	---
Attachments:	test PDF

Description Jorj 2023-08-22 14:08:58 UTC

On extracting text from the attached file, all space characters are outputted as invalid unicode 0xFFFD.

Command "mutool draw -o test.txt test.pdf".

Other tools like XPDF-pdftotext do not show this behaviour.

Comment 1 Jorj 2023-08-22 14:11:10 UTC

Created attachment 24724 [details]
test PDF

Comment 2 Jorj 2023-08-26 18:07:37 UTC

For more background and user communication, please also see the corresponding Github issue: https://github.com/pymupdf/PyMuPDF/issues/2609.

Comment 3 Tor Andersson 2023-11-14 18:52:22 UTC

commit 3afbba702d491a8f8d2bbeba72115fa9ca04a411 (origin/master, origin/HEAD)
Author: Tor Andersson <tor.andersson@artifex.com>
Date:   Tue Nov 14 19:51:09 2023 +0100

    Bug 707045: Convert some ascii control characters to spaces.
    
    Tabs, newlines, etc.