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6 total messages Started by syno Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:32

#957

Author: syno
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:32

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Hi guys

I have been stuck with this one for a while and I was hoping somebody might be able to help.

I am using Adobe Reader 9 and I am using a little program written in AutoIT to search for a text string. I know that I will not be able to search the text string while my file is in a PDF format. To get around this I have tried the option to: File > Save as Text in order to save my PDF document as a .txt file. However my .txt file, when generated from Adobe is still not searchable.

I can search a text, if I create a notepad file for example and add some text, but this I cannot do if it gets generated from the Adobe reader. Maybe I should find a new reader because I have tried a number of different writers and those files fail also...

Are there any suggestions for my dilema

Thank you

Re: Search a text file

#959

Author: graffiti
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:54

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When you open the .txt file, what do you see?

If it's garbage characters or nothing at all, it means the PDF was probably created from a scan and contains no text to search.

Re: Search a text file

#970

Author: syno
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:28

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The text file looks fine and looks as I would expect it to look. There are some square blocks on some lines, but other then that the text is perfectly legible...

Re: Search a text file

#971

Author: Bernd Alheit
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:35

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May be a problem of the program written in AutoIT.

Re: Search a text file

#972

Author: syno
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:08

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I dont think so because the program works if I create a straight forward text file.

Re: Search a text file

#988

Author: syno
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:09

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This is a very funny situation. I think I may try a different PDF reader as this may be caused by the Adobe formatting.

Thanks

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