title: Recover text from PDF file when normal methods fail
body: <p>I have a few hundred PDF files from which I need to extract sections of text. For many, <em>pdftotext</em> works fine, but for others, it misses large sections of text. If I open the PDF in Acrobat and select that text by hand and copy/paste into emacs and then view the file without an encoding, I get stuff like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code> Husband \364\200\200\272\364\200\201\213\364 etc.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How can I extract the text correctly?</p>
  
  <p>I should mention that I've tried saving as text from Acrobat; also tried applying Acrobat's Document=>OCR feature before copying. </p>