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gettext empty result

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Description

Hello, Iwant to extract this pdf, but the result is empty.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/azb7yddqo2ry55j/123.pdf/file

this is my code

$parser = new \Smalot\PdfParser\Parser(); // Parse pdf file using Parser library 
$pdf = $parser->parseFile($file);
$metaData = $pdf->getDetails();
print_r($metaData); 
$pages  = $pdf->getPages();
foreach ($pages as $page) {
            $text = $page->getText();
            echo "<div>".$text."</div>";
}
echo $file;

the result just

Array
(
    [Producer] => cairo 1.17.4 (https://cairographics.org
    [Pages] => 1
)
<div></div>D:\web\D\public\pdf_po/123.pdf

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Reproduce the report with the linked PDF and the shown Parser::parseFile(), getPages(), and Page::getText() calls. Start by checking whether the PDF contains extractable text, then trace the page text extraction path and compare its behavior with a text-bearing PDF. Done means identifying the cause of the empty result and documenting or testing a reproducible fix.

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Issue type
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