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Why are all the amounts values negative?


A few days ago I got this email from a customer. Something about all the amounts coming out as negative. I converted their PDF. PDF Sample Converted Sample The customer was right, all amounts were coming through as negative. Pretty weird. Interestingly the column headers end with minus sign characters. I then opened up the PDF in PDFSnake to see how the text is encoded. Let’s look at how the values “$110.

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