{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/manalishah/NLTKRest/issues/17","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/manalishah/NLTKRest","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/manalishah/NLTKRest/issues/17/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/manalishah/NLTKRest/issues/17/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/manalishah/NLTKRest/issues/17/events","html_url":"https://github.com/manalishah/NLTKRest/issues/17","id":150603143,"number":17,"title":"Unicode ecodeError while parsing the PDF files. ","user":{"login":"adityardesai","id":1384924,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1384924?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/adityardesai","html_url":"https://github.com/adityardesai","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adityardesai/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adityardesai/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adityardesai/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adityardesai/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adityardesai/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adityardesai/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adityardesai/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adityardesai/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adityardesai/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2016-04-23T22:23:04Z","updated_at":"2016-04-23T22:37:33Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Hi\r\n\r\nI am using NLTKRest server to parse few of the PDF files from Polar Trec Data and get the required NER quantities. But for most of the PDF files I am seeing the following error from the REST server. \r\n\r\n\"UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 8: ordinal not in range(128) // Werkzeug Debugger \"\r\n\r\nCommand used is \r\ncurl -X POST -d  \"PDF TEXT in STRING\" http://localhost:8888/nltk. \r\n\r\nError file is attached as well. \r\n[nltkrest.txt](https://github.com/manalishah/NLTKRest/files/233180/nltkrest.txt)\r\n\r\n\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/manalishah/NLTKRest/issues/comments/213849524","html_url":"https://github.com/manalishah/NLTKRest/issues/17#issuecomment-213849524","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/manalishah/NLTKRest/issues/17","id":213849524,"user":{"login":"manalishah","id":5103715,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5103715?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/manalishah","html_url":"https://github.com/manalishah","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/manalishah/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/manalishah/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/manalishah/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/manalishah/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/manalishah/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/manalishah/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/manalishah/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/manalishah/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/manalishah/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-04-23T22:37:33Z","updated_at":"2016-04-23T22:37:33Z","body":"yes, thats true @adityardesai \r\nyou might want to use this patch until its merged https://github.com/chrismattmann/NLTKRest/pull/7\r\n"}}