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I have problems with this code and I have no idea how to fix it:

\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{makeidx}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage[dvipsnames,svgnames,table]{xcolor}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\usepackage{ulem}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\author{NAME}
\title{TITLE}
\usepackage[paperwidth=612pt,paperheight=792pt,top=28pt,right=34pt,bottom=35pt,left=34pt]{geometry}


\begin{document}

\noindent \textbf{ABSTRACT}

\noindent \textbf{}

{\raggedright

\vspace{3pt} \noindent
\begin{tabular}{|p{514pt}|}
\hline
\parbox{514pt} {\raggedright  \vspace{3pt}
TEXT \textbf{. } TEXT } \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\vspace{2pt}

}

\end{document}

The error that I got is this:

Command Line:   latex.exe --src --interaction=errorstopmode --synctex=-1 "file.tex"
Startup Folder: C:\Users\*****

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (MiKTeX 2.9 64-bit)
entering extended mode
(file.tex
LaTeX2e <2015/01/01> patch level 2
Babel <3.9m> and hyphenation patterns for 1 languages loaded.

! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              

l.1 ï
     »¿%\documentclass[10pt]{article}
? x
No pages of output.
Transcript written on file.log.

LaTeX Compilation Report (Pages: 0)

Errors: 1 Warnings: 0 Bad Boxes: 0

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Matext
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    Welcome to TeX.SX. Your code runs for me without any problem, however there seems to be strange characters before \documentclass according to your posted error log. Could you check your file encoding? –  Jul 03 '16 at 22:02
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    I don't encounter a "LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}." message either. – Mico Jul 03 '16 at 22:03
  • Unrelated to your eventual issue: \usepackage{hyperref} should be at the end of package loading, not somewhere in between –  Jul 03 '16 at 22:08

1 Answers1

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you have a UTF-8 BOM sequence at the start of the file

bytes:

 EF BB BF

or if (mis) interpreted as latin1, the three characters

 ï  » ¿

best would be to use an editor that allows you to save without the byte order mark.

David Carlisle
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