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'utf-16-be' codec can't decode byte 0xXY in position Z: truncated data #988

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MartinThoma opened this issue Jun 14, 2022 · 2 comments
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'utf-16-be' codec can't decode byte 0xXY in position Z: truncated data #988

MartinThoma opened this issue Jun 14, 2022 · 2 comments
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Has MCVE A minimal, complete and verifiable example helps a lot to debug / understand feature requests is-robustness-issue From a users perspective, this is about robustness workflow-text-extraction From a users perspective, text extraction is the affected feature/workflow

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MartinThoma commented Jun 14, 2022 •
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When trying to extract the text from a PDF, I get an exception.

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$ python -m platform
Linux-5.4.0-113-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.31

$ python -c "import PyPDF2;print(PyPDF2.__version__)"
2.2.0

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This is a minimal, complete example that shows the issue with the pdf 971703.pdf:

from PyPDF2 import PdfReader
reader = PdfReader("971703.pdf")
reader.pages[1].extract_text()
@MartinThoma MartinThoma added is-bug From a users perspective, this is a bug - a violation of the expected behavior with a compliant PDF workflow-text-extraction From a users perspective, text extraction is the affected feature/workflow Has MCVE A minimal, complete and verifiable example helps a lot to debug / understand feature requests labels Jun 14, 2022
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Other PDFs that show the same issue:

@MartinThoma MartinThoma added is-robustness-issue From a users perspective, this is about robustness and removed is-bug From a users perspective, this is a bug - a violation of the expected behavior with a compliant PDF labels Jun 14, 2022
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The data does not respect the expected encoding. robustness inprovement proposed in ref PR

pubpub-zz added a commit to pubpub-zz/pypdf that referenced this issue Jun 14, 2022
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ROB : utf-16-be' codec can't decode (...) py-pdf#988
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the data bytes are not matching encoding expectation
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