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March 27, 2018
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Why are some PDFs files made using "convert webpage to pdf file" not searchable?

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Why are some PDFs files made using "convert webpage to pdf file" not searchable?

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Correct answer Dov Isaacs

What appears to be text on web pages is often raster images (in JPEG or PNG formats, for example) and not being actual text, yields raster images in the resultant PDF file and as such is not searchable.

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Dov Isaacs
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March 27, 2018

What appears to be text on web pages is often raster images (in JPEG or PNG formats, for example) and not being actual text, yields raster images in the resultant PDF file and as such is not searchable.

          - Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)