Parsing with unknown text. Help me resolve

• PHP Version: 7.4
• PDFParser Version: 2.9.0

Description:

PDF input

Cannot provide pdf since its confidential

Expected output & actual output

Need to extract table from it

Code

$parser = new \Smalot\PdfParser\Parser();

// Source PDF file to extract text
$file = "tables 2024.pdf";

// Parse pdf file using Parser library
//$pdf = $parser->parseFile($file);

$pdf = $parser->parseContent(file_get_contents($file));

// Extract text from PDF
//$text = $pdf->getText();
$text = $pdf->getPages()[2]->getText();
// Add line break
$pdfText = nl2br($text);

/$ascii_decoded = mb_convert_encoding($pdfText, 'UTF-8', 'ASCII');
$ansi_decoded = mb_convert_encoding($ascii_decoded, 'UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1');
$decode1252 = mb_convert_encoding($ansi_decoded, 'UTF-8', 'Windows-1252');
$utf8_decode = utf8_decode($decode1252);/

$encodings = ['UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1', 'Windows-1252', 'Windows-1251', 'ISO-8859-15'];
$decodedText = $pdfText;
foreach ($encodings as $encoding) {
$decodedText = mb_convert_encoding($decodedText, 'UTF-8', $encoding);
if ($decodedText) {
// If decoding is successful, break the loop
//break;
}
}
$utf8_decode = utf8_decode($decodedText);

print_r($utf8_decode);

The output.. not working

ZZZFDOFKRLFHFRP

5HJXODWRU\B6WDWXVBB

%HQHILWV3ODQVQRWHGDV³3HQGLQJ$SSURYDO´KDYHEHHQILOHGZLWKWKH&DOLIRUQLDUHJXODWLQJVWDWHDJHQFLHVDQGDUHSHQGLQJ
DSSURYDOZLWKWKRVHVWDWHDJHQFLHV

PLATINUM TIER
%HQHILW3ODQ+HDOWK3ODQ1HWZRUN1DPH 5HJXODWRU\6WDWXV

No repository file or test is named. Start by reproducing the reported parseContent(file_get_contents($file)) and getPages()[2]->getText() flow with a non-confidential PDF that shows the same output, then inspect how extracted character encodings are handled. Done means the affected text is extracted legibly without relying on the reporter's post-processing conversions.