Unable to read Hyphen ( -) properly

[catchcharan]

Summary of your issue

X410-SATA-S28 text value in a pdf is getting converted as X410?SATA?S28 into csv. this issue applicable for python and java versions on tabula.

Environment

windows/linux
Write and check your environment.

• python --version: ? 2.7
• java -version: ? 1.7
• OS and it's version: ? windows/linux
• Your PDF URL: just pdf with one cell and the value X410-SATA-S28

What did you do when you faced the problem?

I will replace ? with a hyphen in code temporarily
//write here

Example code:

paste your core code

java -Xmx4080m -jar C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\tabula\tabula-0.9.2-jar-with-dependencies.jar --pages all --guess --format CSV --outfile C:\Meher\pricelistoutput.csv --spreadsheet C:\Meher\pricelist.pdf

Output:

paste your output
X410?SATA?S28 

## What did you intend to be?

X410-SATA-S28 

[chezou]

Basically, it is tabula-java's problem, but I think you should set appropriate locale.
tabulapdf/tabula-java#143

[chezou]

@catchcharan I released tabula-py v1.0.0. I think this problem is resolved. Could you try it?

[chezou]

I found your code is using tabula-java. It is not tabula-py's issue.

[abedkhooli]

Trying v1 of tabula-py with Arabic pdf, text comes as ??s (same as command line in tabula-java. I am using Windows 10 and I guess it has to do with the jar file.