Text recognition not working

[cosmarchy]

Hi,

I have a PDF file in Acrobat which I have run text recognition on and afterwards it appears to work as expected as I am able to search for words which Acrobat picks up.

Wwhen I send this to clients and colleagues, they are unable to search for text.  They are using Foxit reader too.

Once a PDF has been through the process of recognising text, shouldn't it work regardless of the reader being used???

Thanks

[try67 · Accepted solution]

Yes, it should. Sounds like an issue with Foxit...

[try67 · Accepted solution]

Yes, it should. Sounds like an issue with Foxit...

[Abambo · Accepted solution]

Once a PDF has been through the process of recognising text, shouldn't it work regardless of the reader being used???

By cosmarchy

Yes, it should work regardless of the reader being used. But I admit, this is the easy and incorrect answer.

If the reader respects the PDF standard, it should work. Doing an OCR on a scanned document for search proposes uses an (at the time of the introduction) innovative process. The document stays untouched, the text will be put invisibly on the scan. So the original image is still available to the user, but they can search, and they will not see any possible OCR error due to a difficult to OCR file. But if the reader used ignores that additional text layer, then search does not work and you can do nothing about that.

You should test your document with a third-party reader if that is important.

[cosmarchy]

Hi,

I thought it strange that it wouldnt work on other readers but had to ask anyway 🙂

I got the clients and colleagues to try another reader and they could now search so as pointed out, it looks like an issue with Foxit.

Thanks for your help.

[Abambo]

it looks like an issue with Foxit.

By cosmarchy

Sure, the PDF file is the same for both readers…

You're welcome.

[gary_sc]

If the document is not proprietary, you're welcome to share it with us here. I'd be curious to see what can be gleaned from it.