Converting pdf files and viewing them in Pleco reader (Android)

[Ricky1194]

I have tried Calibre to convert the file from pdf to txt and all I get is jumbled text in the reader. I tried changing the font family to a Microsoft JhengHei but that didn't help. It is completely unreadable nonsense. What am I doing wrong here?

 

[Ricky1194]

Here is a screen shot of what I am looking at.

 

[Ricky1194]

Now that I see the location of this thread (I originally found it via google search) I see that I put it in the wrong area. I am using the document reader on the Android Pleco, if that changes things.

 

[mikelove]

It may be that this particular PDF doesn't have embedded text in a usable format / encoding - if you open it in a desktop PDF viewer, are you able to copy-and-paste text and have it appear correctly in another app?

 

[Ricky1194]

It may be that this particular PDF doesn't have embedded text in a usable format / encoding - if you open it in a desktop PDF viewer, are you able to copy-and-paste text and have it appear correctly in another app?

You are correct sir. I copied it from the PDF into Word and it showed up as the same gibberish. Is there anything that can be done?

 

[mikelove]

Only option in that case is to run it through an OCR system - ours doesn't support PDF at the moment due to Android's lack of a built-in PDF decoder, but there are lots of desktop Chinese OCR programs available that can handle PDFs.