incorrect charecter detect

[shgh54]

Hi all,
I have a scanned pdf file and I am using the pdfplumber to extract lines.
the issue is it wrong detect character "B" and show "8".
how can I fix the issue?

Thank you for your help.

[jsvine]

Hi @shgh54, unfortunately this sounds like a problem with whatever tool was used to run OCR (optical character recognition) on the scan, and is not related to pdfplumber. You can try using another OCR tool to reprocess it, though the success will depend on the quality of the scan.