I have a French thesis which I am trying to read, to better understand some parts I am trying to copy some text and use that in google translate, however if I copy text I am getting just rubbish as the pasted text. Most probably there is a problem with the encoding. And even more strangely, I can copy text from the first cover page of the document correctly which is also in French but from the rest, I am just getting a full of rubbish characters from the text that I pasted from the clipboard. Any ideas on how to read parts of this thesis?
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Is this the pdf involved ?
I tried a few things, like changing encoding, convert and re-encode, but i think you are in the situation described here :
your best bet is to save the PDF as a images (TIFF or PNG) and then combine them back together and OCR.
