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<faqs title="Frequently Asked Questions">

  <part id="general_questions">
    <title>General Questions</title>
    <faq id="next_version">
      <question>
        When will the next version of PDFBox be released?
      </question>
      <answer>
        <p>
          As fixes are made and integrated into CVS these changes are documented in the
          <link href="../changes.html">release notes</link>.  I will give an estimate of when
          the next version will be released. <br /><br />
          Of course, this is only an estimate and could change.
        </p>
      </answer>
    </faq>
    
    <faq id="lo4j_config">
      <question>
          I am getting the below Log4J warning message, how do I remove it?

      </question>
      <answer>
  <table>
  	<tr><td>
  	log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.pdfbox.util.ResourceLoader).<br />
	log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
	</td></tr>
  </table>
        <p>
        This message means that you need to configure the log4j logging system.  
        See the <link href="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/docs/documentation.html">log4j documentation</link> for more information.
        </p>
        <p>
        PDFBox comes with a sample log4j configuration file.  To use it you set a 
		system property like this
		</p>
		<p>

		java -Dlog4j.configuration=log4j.xml org.pdfbox.ExtractText &lt;PDF-file&gt; &lt;output-text-file&gt;
        </p>
        <p>
        If this is not working for you then you may have to specify the log4j config file using a URL path, like this:<br/>
        <br />
        log4j.configuration=file:///&lt;path to config file&gt;<br />
        <br/>
        Please see <a href="https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1254229&amp;forum_id=267205">this</a> forum thread for more information.
        
        </p>
      </answer>
    </faq>

    
  </part>
  
  <part id="text_extraction">
    <title>Text Extraction</title>
    <faq id="no_text_extraction">
      <question>
        How come I am not getting any text from the PDF document?
      </question>
      <answer>
        <p>
          Text extraction from a pdf document is a complicated task and there are many factors
          involved that effect the possibility and accuracy of text extraction.  It would be helpful
          to the PDFBox team if you could try a couple things.
        </p>
          <ul>
          	<li>Open the PDF in Acrobat and try to extract text from there.  If Acrobat can extract text
          	then PDFBox should be able to as well and it is a bug if it is not.  If Acrobat cannot extract text then
          	PDFBox 'probably' cannot either.</li>
          	<li>It might really be an image instead of text.  Some PDF documents are just images that have
          	been scanned in.  You can tell by using the selection tool in Acrobat, if you can't select 
          	any text then it is probably an image.</li>
          </ul>

      </answer>
    </faq>
    <faq id="gibberish_text">
      <question>
        How come I am getting gibberish(G38G43G36G51G5) when extracting text?
      </question>
      <answer>
        <p>
          This is because the characters in a PDF document can use a custom encoding 
          instead of unicode or ASCII.  When you see gibberish text then it
          probably means that a meaningless internal encoding is being used.  The
		   only way to access the text is to use OCR.  This may be a future
		   enhancement.
        </p>
      </answer>
    </faq>
    <faq id="cant_handle_font_width">
      <question>
        What does "java.io.IOException: Can't handle font width" mean?
      </question>
      <answer>
        <p>
          This probably means that the "Resources" directory is not in your classpath.  The 
          Resources directory is included in the PDFBox jar so this is only a problem if you 
          are building PDFBox yourself and not using the binary.
        </p>
      </answer>
    </faq>
    <faq id="no_permission">
      <question>
        Why do I get "You do not have permission to extract text" on some documents?
      </question>
      <answer>
        <p>
          PDF documents have certain security permissions that can 
          be applied to them and two passwords associated with them, a user password and a master password. 
          If the "cannot extract text" permission bit is set then you need 
          to decrypt the document with the master password in order to extract the text. 
        </p>
      </answer>
    </faq>
  </part>

</faqs>
