Adobe Reader 9 cannot read text, thus can't search

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5 total messages Started by minidee Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:42

#1324

Author: minidee
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:42

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Just six days ago I was able to search the text on a PDF doc. Starting today or maybe yesterday, I couldn't search a document with texts. And I couldn't search the same PDF document online which was where I downloaded it from. What is going on??? The Adobe Reader program is only seeing the doc as a picture. But I can search other documents that have highlightable text. HELP! I want to fix this search engine problem! Thanks, much appreciated!

Re: Adobe Reader 9 cannot read text, thus can't search

#1256

Author: minidee
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:07

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hi does anyone have any suggestions or even understand my problem?

Re: Adobe Reader 9 cannot read text, thus can't search

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Author: Simon_ATS
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:38

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Are you sure you looking at the same doc now as you did before?

Check if there are any fonts within the PDF go to file>document properties>fonts.

If there aren't any fonts, you won't be able to search because the PDF is as you say a picture of text and not actual text.

Re: Adobe Reader 9 cannot read text, thus can't search

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Author: minidee
Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 06:32

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I'm absolutely positive that I could search text on the PDF before. In fact, I did a lot of searching. Now I cannot do any searches. And yes, I checked the fonts thing and there is none. I'm completely boggled about this. And I used google to find the pdf and could search the PDF while opening it under google. Now, I can't.

Any other suggestions?

Re: Adobe Reader 9 cannot read text, thus can't search

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Author: graffiti
Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 07:29

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Hard to say what happened but the best guess is, you have a different PDF than before. See if to can select any text. If not, it's a scan.

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