diff --git a/libraries-apache-commons-2/pom.xml b/libraries-apache-commons-2/pom.xml
index d771aac9ab..ee9b51e6cc 100644
--- a/libraries-apache-commons-2/pom.xml
+++ b/libraries-apache-commons-2/pom.xml
@@ -28,12 +28,18 @@
             <artifactId>commons-vfs2</artifactId>
             <version>${commons-vfs2.version}</version>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+            <artifactId>commons-text</artifactId>
+            <version>${apache-commons-text.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
     <properties>
         <commons-compress.version>1.23.0</commons-compress.version>
         <ant.version>1.10.13</ant.version>
         <commons-vfs2.version>2.9.0</commons-vfs2.version>
+        <apache-commons-text.version>1.10.0</apache-commons-text.version>
     </properties>
 
 </project>
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diff --git a/libraries-apache-commons-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/commons/convertunicode/UnicodeConverterUtil.java b/libraries-apache-commons-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/commons/convertunicode/UnicodeConverterUtil.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c788f6ee61
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libraries-apache-commons-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/commons/convertunicode/UnicodeConverterUtil.java
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+package com.baeldung.commons.convertunicode;
+
+import org.apache.commons.text.StringEscapeUtils;
+
+import java.util.regex.Matcher;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+
+public class UnicodeConverterUtil {
+
+    public static String decodeWithApacheCommons(String input) {
+        return StringEscapeUtils.unescapeJava(input);
+    }
+
+    public static String decodeWithPlainJava(String input) {
+        Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("\\\\u[0-9a-fA-F]{4}");
+        Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(input);
+
+        StringBuilder decodedString = new StringBuilder();
+
+        while (matcher.find()) {
+            String unicodeSequence = matcher.group();
+            char unicodeChar = (char) Integer.parseInt(unicodeSequence.substring(2), 16);
+            matcher.appendReplacement(decodedString, Character.toString(unicodeChar));
+        }
+
+        matcher.appendTail(decodedString);
+        return decodedString.toString();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/libraries-apache-commons-2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/commons/convertunicode/UnicodeConverterUnitTest.java b/libraries-apache-commons-2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/commons/convertunicode/UnicodeConverterUnitTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f4a9bbcb77
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libraries-apache-commons-2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/commons/convertunicode/UnicodeConverterUnitTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+package com.baeldung.commons.convertunicode;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+
+public class UnicodeConverterUnitTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenInputHaveUnicodeSequences_ThenDecode() {
+        String encodedString = "\\u0048\\u0065\\u006C\\u006C\\u006F World";
+        String expectedDecodedString = "Hello World";
+        assertEquals(expectedDecodedString, UnicodeConverterUtil.decodeWithApacheCommons(encodedString));
+        assertEquals(expectedDecodedString, UnicodeConverterUtil.decodeWithPlainJava(encodedString));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenInputHaveNoUnicodeSequences_ThenDoNothing() {
+        String inputString = "Hello World";
+        assertEquals(inputString, UnicodeConverterUtil.decodeWithApacheCommons(inputString));
+        assertEquals(inputString, UnicodeConverterUtil.decodeWithPlainJava(inputString));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenInputHaveUnicodeSequencesInMiddle_ThenDecode() {
+        String encodedString = "This is a test \\u0069\\u006E the middle.";
+        String expectedDecodedString = "This is a test in the middle.";
+        assertEquals(expectedDecodedString, UnicodeConverterUtil.decodeWithApacheCommons(encodedString));
+        assertEquals(expectedDecodedString, UnicodeConverterUtil.decodeWithPlainJava(encodedString));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenInputHaveMultipleUnicodeSequences_ThenDecode() {
+        String encodedString = "Unicode: \\u0048\\u0065\\u006C\\u006C\\u006F \\u0057\\u006F\\u0072\\u006C\\u0064";
+        String expectedDecodedString = "Unicode: Hello World";
+        assertEquals(expectedDecodedString, UnicodeConverterUtil.decodeWithApacheCommons(encodedString));
+        assertEquals(expectedDecodedString, UnicodeConverterUtil.decodeWithPlainJava(encodedString));
+    }
+}