Text extracted by PDFBox does not contain internat

Question

I'm using Apache PDFBox to extract text from several PDF files. The files are in Polish language and they contain Polish characters. Unfortunately, when I print the extracted text, I keep getting ? (question marks) instead of those characters.

Answer 1

Assuming your extracted text is stored in String s, I am assuming that you are currently using this to print -

System.out.println(s);

I suggest you use this snippet for printing out the polish characters properly-

java.io.PrintStream p = new java.io.PrintStream(System.out,false,"UTF-8");
p.println(s);

This should work and ? will not appear in the printed text.