Pdf scrambled

Cause: Those docs contain non-standard fonts that can not be reliably read or processed. Solution: Re-scan and re-upload the doc to Pipeline. After uploading, breaking apart, merging or rotating a PDF doc in Paperless Pipeline, the information within the doc may appear jumbled or scrambled in Pipeline's doc previewer accessed by clicking the document name.

Docs that have been broken apart, merged or rotated may also be scrambled when you view the doc via Open Original Doc. Docs that have simply been uploaded will display properly when opening the original doc. This problem is caused by PDF docs that contain non-standard fonts that are not embedded within it. In order for docs to be readable by all sources, they must either use standard fonts, or if they use non-standard fonts, those non-standard fonts must be embedded within the doc.

So docs that contain non-standard fonts that are not embedded can not be reliably read or processed. The new file will contain an image of your original document alongside a new invisible text layer with a correct character encoding.

Once you enable this option, all newly uploaded documents will be sent to our OCR engine and the text should show up correctly. PS - If you open your original document in Adobe Reader or Mac Preview and attempt to copy and paste the same text, you will probably run into the same issues.

If the text does not paste as gibberish, please send your document to our support staff and we'll get back to you with a more detailed analysis. Still need help? This will force the creation of a new PDF of the document.

Open the document once again. If the document again appears to be scrambled there is likely an incompatibility between the version of Microsoft Word with which the document was created and the version that is installed on the Web server where the PDF conversion takes place.

Microsoft Word and earlier does not support all the formats and styles found in Microsoft and later. Some organizations have resolved this issue by installing Microsoft's free "Compatibility Pack" on the server. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. Vijay A. Verma Volunteer Moderator.

Please try these options one by one and check after each option. Try repairing your office installation Quick repair is good enough. Try repairing your Office installation. Sometimes, add-ins can cause problems. To determine, if add-in is a problem start your application in safe mode and see if problem has gone away.

If yes, then start application normally and disable add-ins one by one and start application again every time you disable an add-in to determine the culprit add-in. If you want to know if some program is conflicting - Boot your computer in Clean boot mode and then start the application. If it works successfully, then some program is conflicting with this.

Refer to the section - How to determine what is causing the problem after you do a clean boot. Don't forget to do - Reset the computer to start normally after clean boot troubleshooting. Sometimes, this is caused due to application not being able to access the default printer. If this is the problem, then you will need to update your printer driver for default printer.