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I want to use pdfgrep and it works.

When I want to search for an Arabic text or string, it shows nothing. However, it works properly when I search for an English string.

Does anyone have a solution or even an alternative?
This is the code I used:

pdfgrep -in 'احمد' name.pdf
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  • Are you using the same document in your tests for English and Arabic text? Is the document searchable? I ask this because I did a quick test with a sample pdf and pdfgrep seems to be able to find Arabic characters (specifically, poppler should recognize unicode characters) Commented Jul 15, 2022 at 8:52

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I won't lie, I don't know enough about the Arabic language and it's implementation in UTF to make an educated guess as to what may be causing this. However, you might want to check this thread out. Hope it helps

(I would have put this in a comment, but I'm a new contributor so I can't yet)

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