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Russ W
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July 6, 2023
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Can anyone verify whether this live text is 'searchable' or crawled by search engines, Google etc?

  • July 6, 2023
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Noticed this today and presume its a pretty new feature when uploading publications.
Can anyone verify whether this live text is 'searchable' or crawled by search engines, Google etc?

 

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Correct answer HARSHIKA_VERMA

Hi @Russ W,

 

I appreciate your patience, and I want to thank you for bringing up your question. In addition to what our expert Steve has suggested, I also checked with the team about your question, and they confirmed that this new search and select text functionality is not searchable by Google or other search engines.

 

Hope it answers your question.

 

Thanks,

Harshika

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HARSHIKA_VERMA
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HARSHIKA_VERMACommunity ManagerCorrect answer
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July 14, 2023

Hi @Russ W,

 

I appreciate your patience, and I want to thank you for bringing up your question. In addition to what our expert Steve has suggested, I also checked with the team about your question, and they confirmed that this new search and select text functionality is not searchable by Google or other search engines.

 

Hope it answers your question.

 

Thanks,

Harshika

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    DBlayG
    Known Participant
    March 6, 2024

    @Steve Werner, @HARSHIKA_VERMA , other PubOL users ---- I've seen the same marketing language on Adobe website that you mentioned, but I do not see a search function in Publish OL docs I create even though I check that option when exporting. Safari, Edge, Chrome - it isn't there for me. I'm using InDesign v 19.2. I would love to let me clients know live text search is available . . . any help or ideas? Thank you in advance! 

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    DBlayG
    Known Participant
    March 6, 2024

    Very possible I'm not initiating search correctly . . . your insight would be much appreciated

    Steve Werner
    Community Expert
    Steve WernerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 7, 2023

    It doesn't say one way or the other in the public documentation. I think it's intended for manual search and copy. This is from the Help file:

     

    • Allow viewers to Search and Copy text in the published document: Viewers can search and copy text from the published document. This option is enabled by default with InDesign 18.4 and later. You can search for text within your published documents on any device. However, you can only copy text from published documents on desktops and laptops.
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