CTRL + F NOT WORING IN SOME PDFs

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March 6, 2024
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Hello Guys 🙂

I'd like to ask you for help.

The function FIND (CTRL+F) does not work in SOME pdf docs, in some it does.
Do you have some similar experience?
Is anyone able to give me an explanantion/help me?

Thanks a lot in advance!!

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try67

Community Expert

This usually happens when the file doesn't contain real text (only an image with text in it), or the text is not encoded properly. You can test it out by trying to select the text with the text selection tool. If you're not able to select it at all, then it doesn't exist as text, and therefore can't be found. If you are able to select it, copy it and then paste into a plain-text editor, like Notepad. Does the pasted text look the same as the text you've selected in the PDF? If not, it's a font encoding issue.

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Renata5EB9Author

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Thanks a lot, you're right, it definitely is a font encoding issue - I have tried coping a part of the text from pdf and pasting it in a woed doc, it came out like little crosses...
What might be the solution for the font encoding issue, please?

try67

Community Expert

There's no simple solution, I'm afraid. You will basically need to re-create the file from scratch.

If you didn't create it in the first place then your best option is to export all the pages as high-resolution image files (such as PNGs), then create a new PDF from those files and run Text Recognition on it in Acrobat.

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