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Vibeke30584619n71k
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June 19, 2023
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"Find" doesn't work

  • June 19, 2023
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Even when I type words that I see in the document, I get: "No matches were found".

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Vibeke30584619n71kAuthor
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June 19, 2023

How do I do step 1? By trying to copy text from the document using the cursor?

Abambo
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How do I do step 1? By trying to copy text from the document using the cursor?


By @Vibeke30584619n71k

Sorry, but you were answering to a spammer's message. That one has been quarantained. 

 

You really see nicely if a PDF is a scan, when you zoom in the document very strongly. Kind of one character on the screen. If the character outlines are still sharp, it's not a scan. As scans are images they scale differently, and do not apear smoth and sharp when zoomed strongly.

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Bernd Alheit
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June 19, 2023

Can you select and copy text? What does you get when you paste it in a text editor?

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Vibeke30584619n71kAuthor
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June 19, 2023

No... select text doesn't work either. I'm using the desktop version of Adobe Acrobat Standard. Shouldn't that be OK?

Bernd Alheit
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June 19, 2023

When you can't select text it is a scan of a document.

Abambo
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June 19, 2023

Are you certain that the PDF is a Text PDF and not a scanned PDF? When, with scanned PDFs, you do not do OCR, the pages are only images, and there is no text data attached.

 

Check with a different file, like a PDF file you created using a word processor.

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Vibeke30584619n71kAuthor
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June 19, 2023

I do not believe it is a scanned file. When I for instance search for "B" I get a lot of matches, but not all of them... It seems like I get all the relevant matches in Figures and Tables, but fewer in the text sections.

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