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Update text extraction to convert Ligatures in Unicode to plain text

    Details

    • Type: Bug Bug
    • Status: Closed
    • Priority: Major Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Affects Version/s: 4.3.2
    • Fix Version/s: 4.3.3
    • Component/s: Core/Parsing
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    • Environment:
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      Description

      This one came in via support request. The file in question has embedded CID fonts and the toUnicode conversion is handled correctly. However there is a slight hickup related to typographic ligatures and our search system.

      When the word "flight" is rendered it is actually converted to "U+FB01ight" and if pasted into a utf-8 encoded looked as it should. However if someone is searching the document for "flight" the match will not be found.

      The trick now is how to efficiently updated our text parser to convert Ligatures to their respective "full" unicode values. Values 0x64257 -> 0x64261 are common Latin codes which would need to be converted too two individual character codes.

      fi fi U+FB01 fi
      fl fl U+FB02 fl
      ffi ffi U+FB03 ffi
      ffl ffl U+FB04 ffl
      ſt ſt U+FB05 ſt

      I think this can be implemented fairly easily just need to research the full scope of home many different Ligatures are available.
      st st U+FB06 st

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          • Assignee:
            Patrick Corless
            Reporter:
            Patrick Corless
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