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A problem: convert Arabic pdf file to Excel make strange letters
Hello, I've to convert a pdf file into Excel file for essential task in my work but unfortunately the arabic letters changed into strange letters and symbols as shown. Please help me to fix that. ...
That mojibake issue with Arabic PDFs is really common, it usually happens because the PDF's font encoding doesn't map cleanly to Excel/Word's character set, especially with scanned or non-standard-encoded PDFs.
Another option for anyone who hits this and doesn't want the extra Word step: I've had good results with toolzhub it's a https://toolzhub.io/ that handles text properly during PDF-to-Excel conversion, so you can skip the "convert to Word first" workaround and go straight to a usable spreadsheet.
Worth trying both methods if the encoding is still giving you trouble some PDFs (especially scanned ones) may need OCR first regardless of which converter you use.