Encoding issue in extract_text()

[macabeus]

I need to read this PDF.
However, it does not correctly extracts the text.

f = open('myfile.pdf', 'rb')
reader = PdfFileReader(f)
content = reader.getPage(0).extractText()
f.close()

print(content)

This print

Resultado da Prova de Sele“‰o...

But I expected

Resultado da Prova de Seleção...

Accordance with the answer on Stack Overflow, this problem is in PyPDF

[macabeus]

I did a workaround to fix this problem. I do not know what encoding is it, then I fix each character individually.

In file pdf.py, change the last elif for it:

elif operator == b_("TJ"):
    for i in operands[0]:
        if isinstance(i, TextStringObject):
            x = i.get_original_bytes()
            fix = ''
            for i in x:
                if i == 135:
                    fix += 'á'
                elif i == 137:
                    fix += 'â'
                elif i == 139:
                    fix += 'ã'
                elif i == 141:
                    fix += 'ç'
                elif i == 142:
                    fix += 'é'
                elif i == 144:
                    fix += 'ê'
                elif i == 146:
                    fix += 'í'
                elif i == 151:
                    fix += 'ó'
                elif i == 153:
                    fix += 'ô'
                elif i == 155:
                    fix += 'õ'
                elif i == 156:
                    fix += 'ú'
                elif i == 231:
                    fix += 'Á'
                elif i == 234:
                    fix += 'Í'
                else:
                    fix += chr(i)

                text += fix

[MartinThoma]

@macabeus I can't access that PDF, but I assume that #924 has fixed this issue. The release of it will be today (PyPDF2==2.1.0). Please ping me if that (didn't) solve the issue :-)

For the moment, I close it as I assume it's gone.