How to read a pdf in Indian Languages

[cpumb]

Hi,

I am trying to read a Kannada pdf book.

#Sample Code
pdf = fitz.open(text_book)
page = pdf.loadPage(24) # number of page
print(page.get_text('text'))

When I read the file the output doesn't come properly.
“£ÀªÀÄä£ÀÄß ºÉZÀÄÑ ºÉZÀÄÑ zÀÄr¹PÉƼÀÄîwÛÃj. PÀrªÉÄ
DºÁgÀ ¤ÃqÀÄwÛÃj. £ÀªÀÄä ¸ÉÃªÉ ¨ÉÃPÀÄ; £ÁªÀÅ ªÀiÁvÀæ
¨ÉÃqÀ C®èªÉÃ? £ÀªÀÄä ¸ÉêÉAiÀÄ£ÀÄß ªÀÄgÉAiÀÄ¢j.”
“zÀAiÉĬÄgÀ° ¸ÀPÀ® ¥ÁætÂUÀ¼À°èè.”

Is there any way to set the language or font while extracting text?

[JorjMcKie]

This has nothing to do with the language of the text, but with the font used.
Not every font is prepared to support extraction of text. Many people are not aware of the fact, that displaying the text in a viewer and backtranslating it to unicode characters are two completely different things - and the second font feature (the so-called character map - CMAP) need not be present at all.
Encoding information is more often missing in Type 3 fonts - presumably your case.

If you want please share the PDF and I will take a look.
In the meantime try and mark some text in a PDF viewer and copy / paste it into a word / office document and see what happens.

[cpumb]

8th-language-kannada-1-without-watermark.pdf

Hi Jorj,
Attaching the PDF for your reference.

[JorjMcKie]

As suspected: this PDF contains fonts with non-standard encoding so none of the usual tools can extract the text.