Comment 4 for bug 1182991

It seems the text is also garbled if you attempt to copy/paste it from Adobe Reader. This means it is likely a problem with the PDF itself and not Inkscape. Probably your best bet is to use OCR to detect the text and go from there.

As 'internal import' attempts to read the text stored, it will also display this 'garbled' text. Poppler/Cairo works as it imports the actual vector shapes, but this means you can't edit it as text.

Here's an explanation of what the problem most likely is: https://stackoverflow.com/q/2926159/2074608

Closed by: https://gitlab.com/Qantas94Heavy