What are the implications of HTML entities like   being present in PDF files when converting to text and processing in PHP?

When converting PDF files to text and processing in PHP, HTML entities like   can cause issues as they are not recognized in plain text. To solve this problem, you can use PHP's html_entity_decode() function to convert these entities into their corresponding characters before processing the text. 

// Read the PDF file and convert it to text
$text = pdf2text('example.pdf');

// Decode HTML entities in the text
$text = html_entity_decode($text);

// Process the text further
// (add your processing logic here)

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HTML entities   PDF files text conversion PHP processing

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