Re: Can't pdftotext convert the the Arabic text?

[Munzir Taha <munzirtaha at newhorizons dot com dot sa>]

On Yaum al-Ahad 17 Ramadan 1425 20:37, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> --- Munzir Taha <munzirtaha at newhorizons dot com dot sa> wrote:
> > Has any one better luck than me? Any one knows what's is missing?
> > Is it a known issue or do I need to file a bug?
>
> I'm not familiar with 'pdftotext' (you should have provided a link
> to thier homepage and/or authors - google didn't seem to provide
> anything tangible)

pdftotext is distributed with xpdf, the most respected X-based PDF viewer 
(http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/). It takes any pdf file and convert it to text 
(pdftotext file.pdf)

>  2. Contact the authors to see if Unicode/UTF-8 support is included
>     and/or forthcoming - "ask for it".

I will.
I already filed a bug here: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12209
Tell me if you know of  a better place.

Thanks.

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