Hi, I am reading text from a pdf using the PDF reader and in the text I see xEF, xBF, xBE - what are these and how do I remove them.
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PDF reader characters
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It could be either non-printable characters or unicode characters that aren't encodable in the active encoding. xEF could e.g. be an ï (letter i with diaeresis): http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/ef/index.htm
But without knowing the context it's hard to be certain.
You could try using an AttributeEncoder to see if that gives you the expected result.
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Thanks for the help, an example below.
I had some more of a search around and after adding:String replacer and copying the black sections to replace they then were removed. As @david_r suggests I think they are just non printable characters.
All sorted, thanks
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