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bernard meunier
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Unknown Text encoding preventing doing search in docs

Post by bernard meunier »

Hi,

Quite often I print Chrome pages and I noticed that my documents can't be searched
for text!

I have enclosed a such pdf into which I'm able to change text colors using proper tool
but that can't be searched for text even if that text is visible on page.

Is there a way to fix this (assuming you can't recreate it using save or print!)

Regards
Bernard
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Content view with strange Text
Content view with strange Text
Chrome printed page.pdf
Sample PDF file with editable text but not searchable
(189.37 KiB) Downloaded 49 times
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Dimitar - Tracker Supp
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Re: Unknown Text encoding preventing doing search in docs

Post by Dimitar - Tracker Supp »

Hello,

The printed text from the Chrome browser is not actually a text.

Please read this article in order to understand why is this happening:


https://www.pdf-xchange.com/knowle ... gle-Chrome



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bernard meunier
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Re: Unknown Text encoding preventing doing search in docs

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Hi,

Interesting despite this is bad news!

Thanks
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Bernard
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Dimitar - Tracker Supp
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Re: Unknown Text encoding preventing doing search in docs

Post by Dimitar - Tracker Supp »

Unfortunately, sometimes there are such news :-)


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bernard meunier
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Re: Unknown Text encoding preventing doing search in docs

Post by bernard meunier »

BTW: thanks to your answer I did do some testing and finally discover that choising "Save as PDF"
in the print dialog instead of a PDF printer will produce expected results (Text is selectable).

The reason for choosing a pdf printer was that such usually automaticaly open resulting pdf
file... which is not the case with "Save as PDF" choice!

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Bernard
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Re: Unknown Text encoding preventing doing search in docs

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Glad to hear you found a solution!
:D
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