Extracting text from PDF files produced by Oracle reports

Hi,
I am currently using Report Builder 9.0.4.0.21 to produce reports in PDF format.
The pdf reports were displayed to screen and printed to printer correctly.
However, doing a copy-and-paste from the pdf report to a text editor produces
garbage characters. Also, I failed to extract the text using any of available adobe
plug-ins. I know that the PDF report is using font subseting with custom
encoding.I have already read the pdf reference manual and it seems that
the PDF report is missing the mapping tables to convert the custom encoding
used in the report back to ansi or unicode.
Is there a solution to this problem?
Are there any environment variables or settings that I am missing?
Your help is really appreciated.

Hello,
Your problem may be related to a limitation in the PDF generated with Reports 9.0.2 / 9.0.4 when using Subsetting :
Font Subsetting Creates PDF Output not Searchable with Acrobat Reader (Doc ID 311345.1)
This limitation no more exists in Reports 10.1.2 / 11.1
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