Regarding Multi Language PDF data extraction

[Sathish36311]

How the characters will be extracted from different language of a pdf. How to handle that

[jsvine]

The characters will be extracted in whatever language the PDF encodes them in.

[Sathish36311]

But Im not getting the exact character which is visualised in the pdf, I get like 'a question mark inside a rhombus', but the actual character is micro. So how can I extract those as visualized (the exact one)

[Sathish36311]

Yeah If I open the pdf in Adobe and copy paste the text, I get the exact text in the text editor.

[Sathish36311]

Is there any solution for that in pdfplumber

[jsvine]

If that's what you're seeing, the issue is likely with the library that pdfplumber uses to extract the low-level information from the PDFs: pdfminer.six. Unfortunately, there's not much pdfplumber can do on its own to fix font-encoding issues.

[Sathish36311]

So can I handle that encoding issue in the pdfminer.six?

[Sathish36311]

I get the same unicode in pdfminer too. I get like '\u03bc', '\uf06d' of � (actual character is mu 'μ'). Is there any way to convert that Unicode to actual character @jsvine