Searchable Art.

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I work in the DoD realm and occasionally we have to respond to a request that the words in the art be searchable once it's in the Microsoft Word document. The current solution is to build the art in the dreaded and hated PowerPoint - I won't go into the process here, suffice it to say it's laborious and convoluted and the art looks like ass comapre to Illustrator. We've tried exporting Illustrator as PDFs and also as JPEGs with metadata but that doesn't seem to answer the mail (not searchable in Word). We want to use Illustrator exclusively. Any thoughts to a possible solution?

CarlosCanto · Answer

out of the box, I guess you could always export your art file as TXT, distribute it along with the file that would go on the Word document. Then use the OS search tool, on Windows the default search only searches for file names, but one can change it to search file contents. I should be pretty fast to place the word document, one or more txt files (one for each image) and have the OS do the searching.

it's a bit tedious but not much, most importantly it should solve the issue.

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