The Court rejects my completed form because it is not "Text searchable".
- July 10, 2023
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I got around the following error message: "This form requires Adobe Acrobat Reader DC for Mac or Windows" by filling it in using Adobe Fill & Sign. Then I filed it electronically with the court by uploading it to electronic service provider OneLegal. A couple of days later, OneLegal informed me that the court rejected my filing. The notice from the clerk said, "Per e-filing requirements, all filings must be text searchable."
I confirmed that the original (blank) form was text searchable by selecting the search tool, which put a box at the top labeled, "Find in document". I could pick any of the words appearing on the form (for example, "defendant"), whereupon the first instance of that word becomes highlighted. Then I opened the form in "Fill & Sign", and filled in just one word. When I opened it again in Adobe Acrobat Reader, the word I added showed ("test"), but no matter what word I tried to find, I got the message, "No matches found".
I tried exporting the completed form to .doc, .docx, .excell, and powerpoint, then printing to a pdf file, and found that that process restored searchability, but each of those conversions garbled a little or a lot of the document's appearance. None of these conversions retained the boxes for check marks, so that would nout be viable.
I checked documents that I recently had scanned and e-mailed back to me, by both the local Postal Annex and the local FedEx store, and found that none of them came back as text searchable. I could try the other 2 scanning services (the UPS store and Mailboxes etc,) but it is starting to look like the only way to file this is by the antiquated; make three copies of the five page form, the 4 single page MC025 forms, the 7 pages of exhibits, and drive the 60 miles one way to the Central courthouse, and stand in line to file my paper copies.
Please tell me there is an easier way to do this with my Android tablet!
