Re: Searching in PDF-file broken?
On Wed 10 Sep 2014 at 16:32:50 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> Recently I got a PDF-file which displays alright with a pdf-viewer but searching
> for text or numbers does not work correctly.
>
> I tried different viewers like the one built into iceweasel, one of the
> poppler-family like xpdf or evince, and mupdf.
> The text search fails if using a whole word with its first letter (like "monat"
> in the example file available at
> http://www.file-upload.net/download-9507877/iText-2.0.8-example.pdf.html).
> Searching without the first letter works.
Having to sign-up is a disincentive to examining the PDF.
> Likewise, copying strings from a pdf-viewer results in several wrong letters.
> Also for digits either searching nor copying works.
>
> I was told that it works in Windows. I don't have a Windows system to check.
>
> Has anybody else experienced this phenomenon? Is it a problem of some debian
> package?
The problem is far more likely to lie with the PDF and its fonts.
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