Some missing words from converting PDF to Image

[jason-ng-zq99]

Hi, I am currently encountering the titled issue when using the convert_from_bytes function.

On my Mac, this happens specifically if I open up a fillable pdf and fill in with the preview function
Words that are filled in this way do not get converted.

If i use strict=True, and also when i test out with the pdftoppm -r 200 -jpeg sample_pdf.pdf out command on my terminal,
I get the following error message:

Syntax Error: Unknown font tag 'ArialMT'
Syntax Error: Unknown font tag 'ArialMT'
Syntax Error (69): No font in show

I have also gotten Unknown font tag 'Helvetica' on other files.

I have also verified that these fonts are present in my system using the fc-match ArialMT command, which returns me the respective matched font, in this case it'sVerdana.ttf: "Verdana" "Regular"

Interestingly, texts that are filled in via the textbox function remains converted as seen below:

This problem was first found on my Debian GNU/Linux 11 docker, and has the exact same behavior.

I have also already tried installing fonts like fonts-freefont-ttf fonts-liberation fonts-liberation2 ttf-mscorefonts-installer but the same issue persists.

P.S. Suspecting it might be an issue with editable fields, I also tried to flatten the pdf first using fillpdf before using convert_from_path, but the same issue remains.

Problem replicated on two systems:

• OS: macOS Sonoma 14.2.1

• pdf2img version: 1.17.0

• pdftoppm/pdftotext version: 24.03.0

• OS: Debian GNU/Linux 11

• Poppler version: 22.11.0

• Poppler-data version: 0.4.10

Thanks in advance!

[Endlessphysic]

Did you tried to do a screenshot first, save as pdf and use this wiped out file as input again?
I saw a similar problem today.
I don't have a solution yet but I try to understand where the bug is produced.

[stefan6419846]

It is rather unlikely for me that the issue is within pdf2image, but rather with how poppler does the background processing. Thus this should probably reported/requested there.