OT: Cannot extract text from PDF

[Art Campbell]

It sounds as if the file may be corrupted, or was created by a tool
that produced a slightly non-standard format.

What version of Acrobat are you using?

Can you download another copy of the document? Maybe check the
document's metadata to see if there are any unusual entries?

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On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Shuttleworth, Roger
<Roger_Shuttleworth at tvworks.com> wrote:
> Please forgive the OT post, but I'm hoping some of the PDF gurus on the list may be able to help.
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> I have  a PDF that was created using Mac OSX 10.3.9. It displays fine on my Windows XP SP3 machine, but I cannot extract the text and create a Word
> doc. When I try Save As, I get nothing produced except an error:
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> Bad PDF; could not read page structure. <Bad PDF; error in processing fonts: cannot find CMAP resource file> [33]
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> The same error occurs saving as RTF, Word doc, HTML, or text. Actually saving as text creates a file that consists of periods only.
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> If I try to select text, copy and paste into Word, I get a series of question marks. I guess it's a font thing. The PDF has no security applied.
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> I googled the error, but no help.
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> Thanks.
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> Roger Shuttleworth
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> London, Canada
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