Copying Text from Adobe Acrobat into Adobe Indesign and the letter t & i turn into a 7

[nikkikoffice]

Im trying to copy text supplied to me as a pdf so I've opened it into acrobat and then copy the text into indesign. When I do this all the words with a ti in it change to a 7 and then any 7's turn into a ti.

I've never had this issue before.

I've got ligatures turned off in indesign and have tried saving the pdf as a word doc but the same thing happens.

Does anyone know how or why this is happening and how to fix it?

[leo.r · Accepted solution]

I don't know why it happens but extracting text from PDF can be a hit-and-miss (it can depend of the way PDF was created). I'm afraid the only solution for you is to find-replace the extracted text in InDesign. (Although it's possible that other users know more about this issue and will suggest a better solution.)

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

@nikkikoffice 

To add to what @leo.r said - your PDF can have a different CodePage applied - some characters can be substituted by others.

Something like this:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Topkey_Multilingual_Keyboard_mapper_-_Code_Page_%28CP%29_866...

[BobLevine]

Not unusual at all. You can try saving the PDF as a Word file to see if that cleans things up a bit but there's really no 100% way of predicting what you'll get.