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jinxies
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December 6, 2022
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Trying to copy Ukrainian to any document produces gibberish - why?

  • December 6, 2022
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I'd like to translate a PDF catalog from Ukrainian to English but copying/pasting results in gibberish, e.g., Êàòàëîã òâîð3â Êîñòÿíòèíà Âëàñîâñüêîãî

If I paste to Word, gTranslate, search bar on any browser, I get gibberish. If I follow the previously mentioned "fixes" to copy with formatting and paste it does not work - still get nonsense. 

This is an example of the Ukrainian text, which is supposed to read "catalog of works by Konstantin Vlasosvsky in the Sumy art museum".

Êàòàëîã òâîð³â

Êîñòÿíòèíà Âëàñîâñüêîãî

³ç ç³áðàííÿ Ñóìñüêîãî

õóäîæíüîãî ìóçåþ

So, any ideas where the disconnect is and how to fix it?

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try67
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try67Community Expert
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December 7, 2022

The issue is most likely with the font encoding of the file. There's not much you can do to solve it, short of re-creating the file from scratch and running Text Recognition on the new version, using Acrobat. You can do that by exporting the pages as images (use a high resolution, lossless format, like PNG) and then combine those files as a new PDF, then run Text Recognition on the file.

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jinxiesAutor
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December 8, 2022

Thanks for the reply.

This is WAY above my pay grade so I'll be cancelling Acrobat as I tried it just for this type of exercise (there are many more documents to translate).

I appreciate your time to respond.

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