Getting (cid:0) text while reading pdf which is not present in the pdf

[sarveshkrg]

While reading below attached pdf page number 13 using extract_text() method, I am getting (cid:0) but this text is not present in the pdf file.

I need help to know why this text (cid:0) is coming and how to avoid it in case it happens for another pdfs also.

Input file
00058054.PDF
Page number 13

[jsvine]

Hi @sarveshkrg, the (cid:#) texts come from the PDF missing a mapping of the font characters to unicode. See this thread (and others) in the pdfminer.six (pdfplumber's main dependency) repository for more details / potential fixes: pdfminer/pdfminer.six#368