Full text research doesn't work in PDF

Posted about 13 hours ago by Herta Johansmeier

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Herta Johansmeier

I  am searching for a word in a pdf, but copernic only finds it if  the word is part of file name.
I tried  several different pdfs (file produced in  word  and saved as pdf, pdf from scan, merged pdf from different single files.

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Larry Edwards posted about 12 hours ago

I'm sure your PDF file is an "image only" file. Try running OCR (optical character recognition) on it, either via a scanned copy or directly from the digital file you have. There are standalone OCR programs (e.g. ABBYY Fine Reader), probably some free ware, and several online OCR services.

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