Stuck on an issue?

Lightrun Answers was designed to reduce the constant googling that comes with debugging 3rd party libraries. It collects links to all the places you might be looking at while hunting down a tough bug.

And, if you’re still stuck at the end, we’re happy to hop on a call to see how we can help out.

Warning : org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDSimpleFont toUnicode

See original GitHub issue

Summary of the issue

The warning pops up on the creation of csv, Basically i am reading the PDF for the extraction of text. I extract text and write it to the CSV, Its not generating any error, Its warning

The exact warning(s) is

Nov 08, 2017 10:48:48 AM org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDSimpleFont toUnicode
WARNING: No Unicode mapping for .notdef (9) in font Helvetica

Environment

Python version : Python 2.7.13

Java version :

openjdk version "1.8.0_131"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_131-8u131-b11-2ubuntu1.17.04.3-b11)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.131-b11, mixed mode)

Java : java -h is working fine.

Os : Ubuntu 17.04

What did you intend to be?

The warning should not pops up. The rest of the goal is achieved

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 6 years ago
Comments:6 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

lukehsiaocommented, Feb 14, 2018

@chezou Is there a way to silence these warnings?

0reactions

pri1311commented, Jul 16, 2020

Had a similar problem while working with a pdf file which had Verdana font. I converted it to word(docx) file changed the font all throughout and converted it back to pdf. worked well for me after that. It could be a good hack for small projects/ data.