Posted on 2010-11-14 14:34:01.035137-08 by binarybits in response to 13058
Re: Hexstring

Sure! The PDF I'm having trouble with is this one:

http://ia700100.us.archive.org/21/items/gov.uscourts.nysd.321800/gov.uscourts.nysd.321800.28.0.pdf

For example, if you look at page 10, the phrase "transfers designed to obscure the illicit origin of the USD" is a regular ASCII string. The phrase ' - thereby "cleaning" the money - before' is a hexstring, probably because of the smart quotes. And then the phrase "transferring it to clients seeking to purchase USD" is a normal ASCII string again.

I tried the same code on a few other PDFs and didn't see any similar problems, so it's possible that this specific PDF is screwed up.

Thanks again for your help.

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