When I try to copy the text to Word, I am seeing different kind of character.
Where can I download the above mentioned fonts? Is there any other approach to copy the Tamil text from PDF to Word?
55.9k 23 23 gold badges 168 168 silver badges 215 215 bronze badges asked Jan 4, 2020 at 4:40 1 1 1 silver badge 1 1 bronze badge You can also visit this page to get more about Tamlkamban fonts. Commented Jan 8, 2020 at 9:56You can download the font from here
About copy you can try to mark text in Word for example and set font to be any which support Tamil charset (with high probability Arial, Times New Roman have such chars)
answered Jan 4, 2020 at 9:58 Romeo Ninov Romeo Ninov 6,638 5 5 gold badges 21 21 silver badges 20 20 bronze badgesIf I recall correctly - kamban uses its own encoding - tab/tam or TSCII (I don't remember which) and the font is embedded. I suspect word uses unicode only.
For extra 'fun' - there's been a few 'standard' word processors pre-unicode for the language - it might be a TSCII or TAB/TAM encoding, so having an example to test might be useful.
Kamban's developers seem to have released their software free - there seems to be a conversion software that'll take a text file, let you specify a font, and convert to unicode. Copy/pasting your text to notepad, and trying out these formats till one stick's your best bets.
answered Aug 24 at 15:45 Journeyman Geek ♦ Journeyman Geek 131k 52 52 gold badges 273 273 silver badges 444 444 bronze badgesTamil fonts are often based on a superset of Unicode and TACE16 which are not always well handled by PDF or clipboards. To see more on the topic and get recognised fonts refer to https://www.tamilvu.org/ta/tkbd-index-341488
It is important that authors test their PDFs via "Read Aloud" to ensure the font output does not "sound" garbled since if it does not suit Audio Readers it cannot have been correctly imbedded into the PDF as a font (Simply graphics).
Unfortunately even reputable sources can fail.
