Convert comment to normal text

[kinetickenny.9067753]

I have a lot of drawings with 'AutoCAD SHX  Text' comments, this is mostly fine for my purposes and they can be searched if the option to search comments is checked.

The drawings in question are often connected to other drawings with text like 'Continued on XYZ'. What I want to do is insert links to move from drawing to another on these points. I can do this manually no problem, however I often have to deal with 1000+ drawings many containing several links so it would be very time consuming to do.

I found a plugin that can do this, however it fails to find the search terms presumably due to them being comments and not normal text.

If I OCR the drawings then things do work and links are inserted. However then the drawings are no longer vectors and become pixelated when zoomed. It also increases the file size a lot and reducing it seriously effects quality.

I am hoping there is a way to change the comments into normal text which can be searched, but so far I haven't been able to find a way.

Is this possible? Or are there any other options that might work.

[try67]

Flatten the pages. You can do it using this script:

this.flattenPages();

Note that this will affect all comments, fields and links, though.

[kinetickenny.9067753]

When I try that the text is no longer able to be searched so I have the same issue. I assume that the text should be able to be searched after flattening?

I feel like the text is being converted to shapes when flattened, possibly due to font problems?

[try67]

That depends on the type of comment and how it was created.