Font in FineReader Engine 12 Linux has been changed to squares after OCR

Symptoms

On Linux Machines you may have faced the situation that some text has been changed to squares as on the screenshot below:

Cause

The issue appears due to the lack of an Arial font in the system. The original documents contain text layers with Arial font.

Resolution

In order to solve the issue, please add MS fonts by using the following command:

sudo apt install ttf-mscorefonts-installer

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