title: Strange characters reading PDF with iTextSharp
body: <p>I'm using iTextSharp to read a PDF file. I try to read the full text in the first page with this simple code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>var pdfReader = new PdfReader("&lt;fileName&gt;");
  var pageText = PdfTextExtractor.GetTextFromPage(pdfReader, 1, new SimpleTextExtractionStrategy());
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It returns a string like this:</p>
  
  <p>"\0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 !\n\" \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 # \0 $ \0 % \0 &amp; $ \0 ’ \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 !\n\" \0 \0 \0 (\n\0 \0 \0 ) \0 \0 * \0 + , \0 , \0 \0 &amp; , \0 - \0 . # \0 \0 \0 &amp; $ \0 , \0 /\n+ \0 &amp; &amp; \0 * 0 \0 1 .\n2 \0 3\n4 - \0 5 \0 \0 $ \0 \0 # \0 \0 \0 &amp; $ \0 , \0 * &amp; \0 \0 ’ \0 .\n6\n\0 \0 \0 - \0 \0 \0 \0 &amp; \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 , \0 # \0 \0 \0 &amp; $ \0 , \0 \0 \0 &amp; \0 # \0 \0 &amp; $ ’ ) &amp; \0 \0 \0 \0 # \0 ’ ’ \0 7 - \0 $ \0 \0 7 \0 ’ \0 , \0 8\n9 5 \0 \0 , \0 \0 $ $ \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 ’ \0 \0 3\n\0 \0 \0 ) \0 \0 \0 \0 4 - \0 5 \0 \0 $ \0 \0 * &amp; \0 \0 ’ \0 .\n\0 \0 \0 \0 # \0 $ \0 $ \0 \0 ) \0 \0 \0 : 0 ; \0 ; &lt; ; : 1 ; + \0 = &lt; 9 = &lt; &lt; > \0 ? \0 ? \0 3 \0 (\n@\n\0 \0 # \0 $ \0 % \0 &amp; $ \0 ’ \0 ! 3\n\0 ......"</p>
  
  <p>I can read the original PDF with Acrobat Reader and browsers. The file seems to be a PDF/A.</p>
  
  <p>The code I use works with other PDF.</p>
  
  <p>Does iText have problem with this standard?</p>
  
  <p>Can someone point me to the right direction?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Update</strong></p>
  
  <p>Copy/paste from Acrobat gives me broken text. I don't think it's an iTextSharp (5.5.10) problem.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Update</strong></p>
  
  <p>You can try with this file:
  <a href="http://www.olgiatidaniele.com/Public/CU.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">PDF Example</a></p>