PDF created using Adobe Paper Capture Plug-in is searchable text. Why?

[andy_9847]

I have a PDF whose properties say it was produced by "Adobe Acrobat 9.3 Paper Capture Plug-in".  (The PDF version is "1.7, Adobe Extension Level 8 (Acrobat X)".  As I understand it, the paper capture plug-in generates a bit-map which can't be searched (quote from the plug-in help: "The resulting file is a PDF Image Only file—that is, a bitmap picture of the pages that can be viewed in Acrobat but not searched."

However, I am able to extract text from this PDF without using OCR.  So what is going on?

[kglad]

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[Tariq Ahmad]

Hi @andy_9847, 

Thanks for reaching out with your question. 

Are you a developer? Have you created the file? Let us know which application you used to open the PDF file so you can copy the text. 

If you are a developer, you may contact the Developer Support program: https://adobe.ly/4hboAse

If your purpose is to secure the PDF, you can use Acrobat to restrict PDF: https://adobe.ly/4iqFELN;

~Tariq

[andy_9847]

Hi Tariq.  I'm sorry but I don't see how your questions relate to my post.  Could you please explain what you are getting at?  Thanks, Andy

[Bernd Alheit]

In Acrobat DC I can see this:

[andy_9847]

Hi Bernd.  Thanks for your post.  I think I misunderstood what the plug-in does!  Andy