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Har$_ChemTrackQC
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February 22, 2018
Question

Why does my PDF contain renderable text?

  • February 22, 2018
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I've created a large document (700 + pages) that contains renderable text. However, it is not a "scanned" document, the majority was created using the "save as Adobe PDF" function in microsoft word.

The main body (83 pages) of the document I was able to "re-save" from microsoft back to PDF, and replaced the pages in the (700 + page) document and those pages are searchable again. However, I can't do that for the whole document without rebuilding the entire thing.

Is my document corrupt? I don't understand what I did to create a renderable text document. Again, nothing is scanned. I often run the "embed text" fixups, and am also wondering if that's causing a problem?

It would be good to know where I'm making a mistake so I don't have this problem in the future.

Thanks!

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Test Screen Name
Legend
February 23, 2018

No, renderable text does not stop searching. Please describe what you are doing in detail, with your version of Acrobat.

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Test Screen Name
Legend
February 22, 2018

It’s not clear what your problem is. Messages about renderable text usually come when doing OCR which is only for scans. It’s not something you should do on a Word document, which will already contain real text. That is, all your Word text is renderable.

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Har$_ChemTrackQCAuthor
Participant
February 22, 2018

The problem is the document is not searchable due to renderable text. So I'm wondering how to prevent and/or fix renderable text when building pdf documents so that they are fully searchable.

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