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Is this related to the fonts used in PDF? The fonts are embedded subsets... they appear as regular alphabetical characters in PDF, but conversion results in the characters above - what gives?
Thanks in advance...

Hi sgolant,
Does your PDF contain renderable (selectable) text now? If so, try copying some text and pasting it into Notepad (Win) or TextEdit (Mac).
Did you convert to .docx too? Were the results different there?
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