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Topic: Re: Cant search or copy text from my PDF.file (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) What's Wrong with my PDF?, Msg: 139728
From: LeonardR
Date: 9/20/2005 07:59 PM
At 02:05 PM 9/20/2005, p-pdf-whats-wrong-with-my-pdf Listmanager wrote:
>My problem is that i cant search in my pdf file i can read the text
>no problem there i just cant search in it or make a copy of the text in it.
You are correct, you can not.
>I think it's something with the font. i did not create the pdf file
>myself.
That is also correct. The font does not contain any useful
"encoding" information that can be used to extract the textual data from it.
The only way to fix this will be with an OCR application.
Leonard
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