Cannot search content in pdf

I have some pdf files that opens, prints etc. just fine. But i can't search fo word in them. It simplys doesn't find words that actually are in the document.
If I copy/paste some of the text to Word (or anywhere else) it shows strange charecters:
this should have said: INTERNATIONAL
My thought is that it could be some strange kind of copy protection of documents to prevent copy/paste from the document, that as a side effect messes up the search function...
I've attached an example PDF with the problem...
Any ideas what to do or what is wrong?

Are there any way to make the document searchable?
In Adobe Acrobat create TIFF images from the pages. Create a new PDF document from the TIFF images. Run OCR on this document.
Could the reason of the custom encoding be to protect the document from copy/paste?
Ask the author of the document.

Similar Messages

Adobe Reader X problem - no search contents filter

Hi!
I cannot search contents of a .pdf using windows, as I could in adobe reader 9. I have found out that adobe reader x doesn't have a filter (to enable search contents)!
was it this how it supposed to be?

Adobe has really left us up the creek without a paddle here. They stopped posting separate IFilter installers on their download page when they started bundling it in with Reader (except for the 64-bit version of IFilter 9), and the installer for Reader X not only doesn't include the IFilter, but it actually removes whatever IFilter you've got installed. So, you can't, for example, install Reader 9.4 to get the IFilter from it, and then install Reader X over top of it to have a more modern/secure version of Reader, because your IFilter will disappear. You are stuck choosing between Reader 9.4 with a somewhat modern IFilter and probably poor security, or Reader X with no IFilter (or the last IFilter to have its own installer, version 6.0, which is 6 years old).
Dear Adobe, this is a real mess that needs to be fixed. How many people out there have no idea that their PDF files are no longer searchable because Reader X removed their IFilter? At least create an installer for IFilter v9.4 so people can use a modern IFilter in combination with Reader X, instead of being forced to use Reader 9.4. There are a lot of posts in this forum about the missing IFilter, and I don't see a single reply from Adobe.

Cannot search PDF file contents - Windows 7 32 bit - Adobe Acrobat X

Hello,
If this is in the wrong forum please move it.
I work in an enterprise environment and our systems are having trouble searching file contents in Windows Explorer using Acrobat X and Windows 7 32 bit. The files are on a mapped network location.
After removing all adobe products from a test machine and reinstalling the Acrobat 10.0.0 software the windows explorer search function seems to work locally but once I install Acrobat 10.1.anything update, it will fail. It never worked on a networked location.
I have also tried installing Adobe Acrobat 11.0.00 after removing 10.0. Then I made sure my indexing settings were setup to index files and contents and made sure the .pdf extension was selected under file types.
I then created a mapped drive to the network location, and setup my indexing to the folder on that network drive. I was able to do this by installing this Microsoft Add-in that allows use of UNC paths in the indexing.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=3383
Once I set this up, I rebuilt my index and restarted the computer. This is where it gets weird. I can now search the contents of PDF files in this indexed network location, but only by one letter. Searching "c type:pdf" will produce results, but "co type:pdf" will not. I know for sure some of the documents have the work Comment in there so this should should up.
Does anyone have experience getting this to work correctly with the latest versions of Adobe Acrobat X or XI and Windows 7 32 bit? It would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

I will never understand why but in the end I rebuilt my 32 bit dell laptop from scratch and the pdf files can now be searched.
I cannot search them on a mapped drive as I was able to with Windows XP because now they must be indexed and windows 7 will seems not to allow a mapped location to be indexed which must be done to make the pdf files searchable so I have had to move the files to the local drive.
My Windows 7 64 bit systems can search the mapped drives just fine without needing to be indexed. Again I will never understand why this works and the 32 bit machine does not.

Cannot search file content on Word document with embedded Excel table

Cannot search file content on Word document with embedded Excel table. I have Windows 8.1 64-bit and Office 2010 Professional. Only phrases from within Excel tables are not searchable. I have many Word documents with embedded Excel table.
I use it for my invoices. Those invoices are converted to pdf to be sent via mail. Searching the same phrases in related pdf files Works fine. And yes, folders are indexed, searching service is active......... For example I can find all invoices that have
specific address or name, which is located in word document, but cannot find invoices with specific item name or price, being that information is in embedded Excel table. (not linked, embedded). I thought that is a question for Windows forum, but guys directed
me here on Office forum. To clarify, I do not use Ctrl+F inside some document, but Windows Search in my folders. Probably the same happens in Office 2013.
Thank you.

Hi, I have a lot of Word documents (invoices, offers). Main part of those documents is embedded Excel file because it is easier to do mathematics in Excel than in Word. There are columns with description, unit price, quantity, taxes... Now, I need
to find who bought HP switch 2530-24G last year. I open folder with last year invoices and search "2530". Cannot find any. But if that document was converted to pdf for mail, than I can find that phrase. Windows search does not work for content if the content
is in embedded file.

Will TREX/KM search for content on PDF files in Searchable image formats?

Good Day,
We are implementing KM/Trex for an SAP E-sourcing installation and I'm wondering if TREX is able to search PDF contents in the Searchable image format?
Essentially, we scan a document which creates an image and then run Abobe Acrobats OCR on the document to create searchable text.
Thanks in Advance,
Kyle

Hi Kyle,
TREX is not able to index a scanned document even this is pdf.
BUT if afterwards a OCR is running and this OCR text will be stored as hidden text in the pdf than TREX is able to search in this pdf.
Best regards
Frank

When I use Preview to view a PDF in Hebrew, I cannot search in Hebrew nor copy or paste instead I get gibberish

When I use Preview to view a PDF in Hebrew, I cannot search in Hebrew nor copy or paste instead I get gibberish.
Is there a way to fix this?

Do you have an example that someone could look at? I wouldn't be surprised if most PDFs you found were gibberish. PDF is a print format and is really only designed to be printed out and read by a human. Constructing a PDF with real Hebrew Unicode would be a rare find. Here is one example I found by passing the Hebrew word for "Hebrew" in Hebrew in Google. This is a valid PDF. I have no idea what it says.
http://www1.amalnet.k12.il/berseva/profession/art/DocLib/אותיות%20הבריאה.pdf

I cannot search through messages after updating to IOS 6.1.2

After updating to IOS 6.1.2 i cannot search for messages

Hello jrobbertse,
I use the search feature in Messages often, and I would be concerned if it wasn't working as well. I found some steps you can take to help resolve this issue:
Frozen or unresponsive iPhone
http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/assistant/phone
The article is for a frozen and unresponsive iPhone, so the step to recharge the iPhone is not relevant to you. All the other steps in the article would apply to your situation though. Before you go through the step to "Restore iPhone," you should definitely back up the contents of your iPhone:
iOS: How to back up
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
I hope this helps!
Best,
Sheila M.

How 2 search inside a PDF document using the firefox internal PDF reader

Cannot find any way to do a text search inside a PDF document when it is displayed by the builtin PDF player in Firefox.
If there is a way, how is it done?
If there isn't a way, it seems an obvious enhancement.

son of a gun. I've always searched in firefox by hitting slash and typing the search term, but that doesn't seem to work in the pdf reader. I guess, if I had searched for key bindings I coulda figured that out for myself.
thanks!

How to Search word in PDF?

Hi,
I am developing windows application, which will accept PDF file path as input.
Users are allowed to search for the specific word in the PDF and replace with new word.
I don't have any idea on this. So can any one help me to start with.
how can i search word in PDF and edit the PDF file.
Thanks,

PDF is a not a format that enables replacement of textual content, since it doesn't reflow. You need to discuss with the person that gave you the job how difficult/impossible that it is.

Windows Explorer Search problems for PDF's - Windows 7 - Acrobat 10.x and 11.x

Hello,
If this is in the wrong forum please move it.
I work in an enterprise environment and our systems are having trouble searching file contents in Windows Explorer using Acrobat X and Windows 7 32 bit. The files are on a mapped network location.
After removing all adobe products from a test machine and reinstalling the Acrobat 10.0.0 software the windows explorer search function seems to work locally but once I install Acrobat 10.1.anything update, it will fail. It never worked on a networked location.
I have also tried installing Adobe Acrobat 11.0.00 after removing 10.0. Then I made sure my indexing settings were setup to index files and contents and made sure the .pdf extension was selected under file types.
I then created a mapped drive to the network location, and setup my indexing to the folder on that network drive. I was able to do this by installing this Microsoft Add-in that allows use of UNC paths in the indexing.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=3383
Once I set this up, I rebuilt my index and restarted the computer. This is where it gets weird. I can now search the contents of PDF files in this indexed network location, but only by one letter. Searching "c type:pdf" will produce results, but "co type:pdf" will not. I know for sure some of the documents have the work Comment in there so this should should up.
Does anyone have experience getting this to work correctly with the latest versions of Adobe Acrobat X or XI and Windows 7 32 bit? It would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

I am surprised you got a search of contents to work in Win7. MS changed the process and I have not seen a fix as there was with XP. The search engine of Win7 was designed only to search MS documents and other designated documents from MS. For Win7, the solution is typically to use a third party search engine. I had to use a 3rd party program when I was searching the content of non-MS files. An additional issue with a PDF is that it is a binary file and you may not find text or such, particularly if encryption is set.

Adobe error: firefox cannot process content of type text/html

I have designed a PDF form designed in Livecycle designer. The form has a submit button which invokes a servlet. The servlet receives the request and send a response in "text/html UTF-8". If have no browser or IE open when submitting the form, I receive a response that the form has been either successfully submitted or not. However, if I have Firefox open when Submitting, I get an Adobe Reader dialog box that says "An error occurred during the submit process. Cannot process content of type text/html utf-8".
When I look in the database, the form is successfully submitted. How do I make the adobe pop up to disappear and print the confirmation.

where you able to fix the problem?
Viral

ADF: Export table contents to pdf

Hi Everyone,
I am using Jdev 11G...
I have a table and Export to Excel button on the adf page.Export to Excel is working fine.
But now i have to change it to Export to pdf.
Plz let me know how can i perform this operation Export table contents to Pdf.
Plz give me any simple solution for achieving this.
Any answers will be really useful.
Thanks...

Hi Timo,
Thanks for ur response.
i modified that import.
now when i compile im getting error for AppModuleImpl import.
Error(338,12): cannot find class AppModuleImpl.
And also plz specify from where i can get that .xml file which is specified in private static void printXML(Node n) throws IOException { ) method. (which xml file is that).(i didnt find any xml file when i check in my path)
And also the paths in public void generatePDF() {
File xmlfile =
new File("C:/jdevstudio10133/jdev/mywork/FOP/ViewController/src/view/emp.xml");
File xsltfile =
new File("C:/jdevstudio10133/jdev/mywork/FOP/ViewController/src/view/emp.xsl");
File pdffile =
new File("C:/jdevstudio10133/jdev/mywork/FOP/ViewController/src/view/EmpResultXML2PDF.pdf");
Is these 3 paths are alreasy exists or we are creating it now?
Plz clarify me im confused.....
Thanks.

Cannot find Content Processor SkinnedModelProcessor C# XNA

Hi everyone,
Recently I encounter a big problem in XNA, I added the SkinnedModelPipeline.dll into my XNA, but could not work. The error message is "Cannot find Content Processor SkinnedModelProcessor". I want to import the model with Skinned Model processor
so that all the bone data is available for me. I searched the website but I could see there is no solution to this problem yet, but I still wan to try my luck.
THank you in advance :)

Hello,
Please post in XNA specified forums, this is not the right place for your question.
http://xboxforums.create.msdn.com/forums/default.aspx?GroupID=6
Thanks for your understanding.
We are trying to better understand customer views on social support experience, so your participation in this interview project would be greatly appreciated if you have time. Thanks for helping make community forums a great place.
Click
HERE to participate the survey.

Itunes cannot read contents of this phone

I updated my iphone 6 to the ios 8.1.3. it rebooted the phone while still connected to the computer and itunes and now all of a sudden, itunes says "it cannot read contents of this phone" and the only option it's giving me is to restore to factory settings. unfortunately, i didn't back up first before updating. HELP! I'm going nuts here.

This solution worked for me: http://youtu.be/TeHiwRZbcho
Before doing it, though, I updated my Time Machine backup manually, just in case. I also added one step not in the video. The file I was told to delete I first copied to my desktop and confirmed that it could be put back on my device. It literally took one minute. As I type this, my phone is doing its first backup in two months and iTunes didn't give me any heartache.
FYI: I don't know why iTunes doesn't seem to allow multiple backups anymore but once I finished my phone's initial setup I backed it up to the cloud as a safety precaution so I would never have to start from scratch again. I do regular backups to my computer so that if one becomes corrupt, I can turn to the other.
I've had this same problem since the last update (12/15/15 -- almost two months ago) and was hoping this latest would fix it. It didn't. Factory reset was not a viable option. Finally, this morning I did one final search before piecing together what backups I could (photos, exporting from what few apps offer exports, etc) and tried one last search. Using the exact wording in the iTunes warning led me to the video.

Sharepoint PeoplePicker cannot search account on 2nd Domain with 2 way trust

Hi all,
   I have run into this issue for 2 days, and cannot figure out why.
   We have 3 different Sharepoint environments, and we have two-way trust between 1st and 2nd domain.
   But, one of the environments cannot search 2nd domain in PeoplePicker.
   However, the other two environments didn't require any configuration to be able to search ppl on the 2nd domain.
   Is there anyone know what happened on the specific environment?
   P.S. That specific environment has two servers in the farm, and one of them can search the 2nd domain in PeoplePicker, but the other one cannot.
   Any idea? Thank you.
James

Hi,
The issue usually occurs due to invalid trusts between different forests or the incorrect property set using stsadm. By default the people picker would search for users from same forest as that of the SharePoint server. If want to find the users from other domain, you need to use stsadm to set “peoplepicker-searchadforests” of the people picker.
If the new domain is in the same forest as the domain in SharePoint server, try to run the command line: stsadm -o setproperty. If the two domains are not in the same forest, you must run the setapppassword operation, and then run the peoplepicker-searchadforests property
For more information, please refer to: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263460.aspx
Let me know the result.
Xue-Mei Chang

Cannot search content in pdf

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for