#1351·pypdf

Ligature issue when converting PDF to text

Author: gargarvinCreated Sep 16, 2022Updated Aug 25, 2026
Labelsis-bugworkflow-text-extraction

I am having a ligature issue with this PDF. 'fi', 'fl' and 'ff' characters are returning NULL

#598 is similar to this issue.

MVCE: Code + PDF

python
from PyPDF2 import PdfReader

reader = PdfReader("Inspection_redacted.pdf")
for page in reader.pages:
    print(page.extract_text())

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