Hi Monks!

I have a PDF file which contains a filled form. Unfortunately the information (text-only) isn't plain ASCII. I nned a perl script to extract the information and process it, but I can't get anything except gibberish. I figured it's condensed somehow, so I used QPDF to make the file more human-readable.

Now there are multiple objects whose content is something like

feff05e405e805d905d8002e002e002e

which seem to be the content of the fields, in some encoding. There are also some objects that look like:

  /BaseFont /RCZMJK+TimesNewRoman
  /DescendantFonts 13 0 R
  /Encoding /Identity-H
  /Subtype /Type0
  /ToUnicode 93 0 R
  /Type /Font

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while the /ToUnicode information refes to objects that look like:

93 0 obj
<<
  /Length 94 0 R
>>
stream
/CIDInit /ProcSet findresource begin
12 dict begin
begincmap
/CIDSystemInfo
<< /Registry (Adobe)
/Ordering (UCS) /Supplement 0 >> def
/CMapName /Adobe-Identity-UCS def
/CMapType 2 def
1 begincodespacerange
<0000> <FFFF>
endcodespacerange
4 beginbfchar
<02A8> <05D8>
<02A9> <05D9>
<02B4> <05E4>
<02B8> <05E8>
endbfchar
endcmap CMapName currentdict /CMap defineresource pop end end
endstream
endobj

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I need some perl script (or a module) that can make sense of all that (to me it looks like Turkish. Hint: I don't speak Turkish) and convert it to utf-8 or some other encoding that makes sense.

Any help would be appreciated.

In reply to PDF decoding in Perl by Arik123

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