Why can't I search for words anymore?

Ever since I installed Adobe ExportPDF, I can no longer search a PDF file for words

Had the same problem. Turn phone off completely and restart. The search bar reappears.

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Can't search for words anymore after saving PDFs in Preview

Hi everyone,
I would love to use Preview for my day-to-day use of previewing PDFs + highlighting + setting annotations. However, once I have saved the pdf with Preview I can not search for words anymore. If I search for one letter only, I would get cryptic hits like "7;%! 2%8%P%8!".
I am not sure, but I guess when preview saves the pdf using a Quartz PDF context, something happens with the index, or the underlying the font structuring.
Does anyone have had experience with these kinds of troubles?
Thanks in advance,
Heinrich

Hi, thanks for answering quickly, and the heads up on that other thread.
It undoubtedly has to do with the annotations or mark ups (the last, in my case).
In the linked-to thread they end by suggesting that it's because it's has "commenting not allowed" when you see it
using Adobe Reader, File > Properties > Security says Commenting: Not Allowed.
However, some documents with "commenting not allowed set in Adobe Reader I can highlight or annotate fine, without it messing up after saving.
Besides, any document I save as pdf even from Word, will say commenting not allowed in Adobe Reader. So if even my own documents are not highlight- or annotate-able without garbling the text, what documents would these functions be for, then?
I think what somebody mentioned in the other thread about character encodings hold some truth, I see it in documents in Danish with æ ø and å (however, not all!), but not in English-only docs (yet. Have any of you?).
Thanks in advance,
- Alexander

After the update why can't I search for anything?

I did all updates the system says I need now I can't search for anything. Every search result has a pop up window "itunes store not available. try again later". been trying for hours.
after reading the other problems on here I'm afraid to connect my Ipod touch
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I updated my iTunes to 10.2.2 this morning and have had various odd things happening. Including strange things with the iTunes Store, and also my Home Sharing bombing out on me. It just occurred to me that I haven't restarted my MackBook in a while, and then I remembered that Software Update didn't ask for a restart after updating iTunes when normally it does.
Anyway, I retstarted my Macbook, and my iTunes now appears to be behaving itself. The Store is fine and I have Home Sharing back on my iDevices too.
I'm sure you've probably done a restart, but maybe like me, you haven't, as to be quite frank, I rarely have to as nothing really goes wrong.
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I have a long .pdf document in Russian but find, as in the past, that words placed in Preview's search bar always get no hits.
If Preview can display a text in a foreign language, why can't it search for words in that language?

Try Adobe Reader instead of Preview.
The basic problem is that the pdf format is not reliable for searching, and sometimes even copy/pasting non-Latin text. Depending on how it is produced, the internal representation of the text can easily become useless garbage.

HT201272 Why can't I search any apps in the store? I can only see the ones that the Genius thing recommends for me. This is on my iPhone 4S .

Why can't I search the App Store on my iPhone 4S? All I can do is search the recommended ones from Genius. What do I need to do?

Apple’s having trouble with the iTunes Store servers right now. Wait for them to resolve the issue.
Feel free to check up on the issue @ http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/
This outage started @ 5am est (~10 hours ago).
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Do you know a reader app in which I can search for words?

Do you know a reader app in which I can search for words? I mean which can open .doc files and i can search for specific words in the full text! Thanks!

I am not aware of any such fix. If you are concerned, apply a screen protector.

Unable to search for words in a pdf document

I am using Adobe Reader Ver 10.1.1 (All updates)
I have a pdf document in which I am unable to search for words. No words in the document are found even though they do exist. If I copy a word from within the document and paste it into the search criteria then instead of getting the word that I copied, I get substitute characters and it can in fact find these characters as the word being searched.
The document is a catalog and can be downloaded from the following URL.
http://www.carbatec.com.au/getcatalogue?zenid=d1cuvbat0ois0g37r0r33vnah1
I will appreciate any help as to why I cannot search for words in the document.

Thank you Dave Merchant and try67 for your responses. As per my previous post, I contacted the company re the catalogue and they have responded favourably. I'll include their response because it gives the reason for the search failure as document compression which you might find interesting. I'll await their new catalogue and see if they have fixed the problem.
Company response:
Thank you very much for your input. And yes, you are correct, the compression we used for the current catalogue's PDF format does strip out text included in the catalogue. We used the compression settings we did with the intention of minimising download time, however I take your point about including text for search purposes (which I also utilise when I'm scanning through PDFs).
We will actually be posting out our new catalogue next week and we'll release the new PDF version on the website at the same time. I've asked our graphic designer to ensure that the PDF we use for the new catalogue includes searchable text.

My mac is infected with viruses, Safari can not normally search for constantly appear commercials and some unknown site. What to do? antivirus free program that you recommend?

my mac is infected with viruses, Safari can not normally search for constantly appear commercials and some unknown site. What to do? antivirus free program that you recommend?

You may have installed the "VSearch" trojan, perhaps under a different name. Remove it as follows.
Malware is constantly changing to get around the defenses against it. The instructions in this comment are valid as of now, as far as I know. They won't necessarily be valid in the future. Anyone finding this comment a few days or more after it was posted should look for more recent discussions or start a new one.
Back up all data before proceeding.
Step 1
From the Safari menu bar, select
          Safari ▹ Preferences... ▹ Extensions
Uninstall any extensions you don't know you need, including any that have the word "Spigot," "Trovi," or "Conduit" in the description. If in doubt, uninstall all extensions. Do the equivalent for the Firefox and Chrome browsers, if you use either of those.
Reset the home page and default search engine in all the browsers, if it was changed.
Step 2
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
/Library/LaunchAgents/com.vsearch.agent.plist
Right-click or control-click the line and select
          Services ▹ Reveal in Finder (or just Reveal)
from the contextual menu.* A folder should open with an item named "com.vsearch.agent.plist" selected. Drag the selected item to the Trash. You may be prompted for your administrator login password.
Repeat with each of these lines:
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.vsearch.daemon.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.vsearch.helper.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/Jack.plist
Restart the computer and empty the Trash. Then delete the following items in the same way:
/Library/Application Support/VSearch
/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/Jack
/System/Library/Frameworks/VSearch.framework
~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ConduitNPAPIPlugin.plugin
Some of these items may be absent, in which case you'll get a message that the file can't be found. Skip that item and go on to the next one.
This trojan is distributed on illegal websites that traffic in pirated content. If you, or anyone else who uses the computer, visit such sites and follow prompts to install software, you can expect much worse to happen in the future.
You may be wondering why you didn't get a warning from Gatekeeper about installing software from an unknown developer, as you should have. The reason is that this Internet criminal has a codesigning certificate issued by Apple, which causes Gatekeeper to give the installer a pass. Apple could revoke the certificate, but as of this writing, has not done so, even though it's aware of the problem. This failure of oversight has compromised both Gatekeeper and the Developer ID program. You can't rely on Gatekeeper alone to protect you from harmful software.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. In the Finder, select
          Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar and paste into the box that opens by pressing command-V. You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.

Why can't I edit the Word doc I converted from a PDF?

Why can't I edit the Word doc I converted from a PDF?
Help! That is why I bought this software!

Hi linda007,
If you can't edit the file once it's converted to Word, it could be that the PDF was created from a scanned page, and then image text wasn't converted to searchable text. ExportPDF should perform Optical Character Recognition by default, but it can be disabled in Reader. Do you know whether OCR was disabled when you converted the page? If it wasn't, make sure that the correct language was selected for OCR. This option appears at the bottom of the ExportPDF panel in Reader, and in the Document Language (for Text Recognition) pop-up menu that appears after you select your file to convert in the ExportPDF online service.
If everything seems to have been set correctly, and you still can edit the text, please try triple-clicking to select the text in Word. Did that do the trick?
Best,
Sara

I need autocomplete for search for words in a txt. file

i am not so good in java.
I have a running code for search in text with a txt. file (from user bluefox815).
But I need a solution with autocomplete for search for words in a txt. file.
test_file.txt (Teil des Inhaltes):
Roboter robots
Mechatronik mechatronics
and so on
Can you help me please.
Here is the code:
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.io.*;
* this program searches for a string in a text file and
* says which line it found the string on
public class SearchText implements ActionListener {
private String filename = "test_file.txt";
private JFrame frame;
private JTextField searchField;
private JButton searchButton;
private JLabel lineLabel;
private String searchFor;
private BufferedReader in;
public SearchText() {
frame = new JFrame("SearchText");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
searchField = new JTextField(80);
searchButton = new JButton("Search");
// this is used later in our actionPerformed method
searchButton.setActionCommand("search");
// this sets the action listener for searchButton, which is the current class
// because this class implements ActionListener
searchButton.addActionListener(this);
lineLabel = new JLabel("nach dem Fachbegriff suchen");
public void createGUI() {
JPanel topPanel = new JPanel();
topPanel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(topPanel, BoxLayout.X_AXIS));
JPanel bottomPanel = new JPanel();
JPanel mainPanel = new JPanel();
mainPanel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(mainPanel, BoxLayout.Y_AXIS));
topPanel.add(searchField);
topPanel.add(searchButton);
bottomPanel.add(lineLabel);
mainPanel.add(topPanel);
mainPanel.add(bottomPanel);
frame.getContentPane().add(mainPanel);
frame.pack();
frame.setVisible(true);
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
// now we get the action command and if it is search, then it is the button
if ("search".equals(e.getActionCommand())) {
searchFor = searchField.getText();
searchTheText();
private void searchTheText() {
// I initialize the buffered reader here so that every time the user searches
// then the reader will start at the beginning, instead of where it left off last time
try {
in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(new File(filename)));
} catch (IOException e) {
String lineContent = null;
int currentLine = 0;
// this will be set to true if the string was found
boolean foundString = false;
while (true) {
currentLine++;
// get a line of text from the file
try {
lineContent = in.readLine();
} catch (IOException e) {
break;
// checks to see if the file ended (in.readLine() returns null if the end is reached)
if (lineContent == null) {
break;
if (lineContent.indexOf(searchFor) == -1) {
continue;
} else {
lineLabel.setText(String.valueOf(lineContent));
foundString = true;
break;
if (!foundString)
lineLabel.setText("Es kann kein Fachbegriff gefunden werden.");
try {
in.close();
} catch (IOException ioe) {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
new SearchText().createGUI();
}

Markus1 wrote:
But I need a solution with autocomplete for search for words in a txt. file.What is your question? What have you tried so far? What are you having difficulty with?
Mel

PDF Search: Escape chars / search for words containing dots

Hello,
i'm trying to do a search for ip adresses in a pdf document - eg for "10.100.0.1" - but it seems that adobe reader doesnt cope with the included dots.
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Thanks,
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This is what I do:
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6) Do a search for "dazzler", but nothing comes up.
Very strange.
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I've already reindexed Spotlight, restarted, and tried various other general things, all to no avail. Any advice would be appreciated.
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I can confirm your problem. Report the bug at http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html as will I.
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why can't i open a word document on my pad? I used to be able to but now I can't. Is there a setting that I can change?

Try a Reset [Hold the Home and Sleep/Wake buttons down together for 10 seconds or so (until the Apple logo appears) and then release. When the screen goes blank power On again in the normal way.] It is absolutely/appsolutely safe!

Need to search for words with similar meaning

HI,
I want to search for words which are similar in meaning,
for example, search with the keyword LIME should give LIME , LEMON etc.
Can it be done using the inbuilt thesaurus?

I don't know how similar the example that you provided is to your actual problem. Synonyms are not the only relations that you can set. You an also use related terms and hierarchies using broader and narrower terms. In the following example, I have created citrus as a broader term and created lemon, lime, and orange as narrower terms underneath citrus. I have them demonstrated how you can query to return all items from the same category that lemon is in, by first finding the broader term citrus above it, then searching for all narrower terms underneath that. I have included some intermediary results that you don't need to run, just for better understanding of how the query is formed.
SCOTT@orcl12c> create table test_tab
2    (test_col varchar2(60))
3 /
Table created.
SCOTT@orcl12c> insert all
2 into test_tab values ('lemon')
3 into test_tab values ('lime')
4 into test_tab values ('orange')
5 into test_tab values ('toaster oven')
6 select * from dual
7 /
4 rows created.
SCOTT@orcl12c> create index test_tab_idx on test_tab (test_col) indextype is ctxsys.context
2 /
Index created.
SCOTT@orcl12c> begin
2    ctx_thes.create_thesaurus ('test_thes');
3    ctx_thes.create_relation ('test_thes', 'lemon', 'bt', 'citrus');
4    ctx_thes.create_relation ('test_thes', 'lime', 'bt', 'citrus');
5    ctx_thes.create_relation ('test_thes', 'orange', 'bt', 'citrus');
6 end;
7 /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SCOTT@orcl12c> variable g_search varchar2(100)
SCOTT@orcl12c> exec :g_search := 'lemon'
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SCOTT@orcl12c> select ctx_thes.bt (:g_search, 1, 'test_thes') from dual
2 /
CTX_THES.BT(:G_SEARCH,1,'TEST_THES')
{LEMON}|{CITRUS}
1 row selected.
SCOTT@orcl12c> select 'nt(' ||
2            replace (ctx_thes.bt (:g_search, 1, 'test_thes'), '|', ', 1, test_thes)|nt(')
3            || ', 1, test_thes)'
4 from dual
5 /
'NT('||REPLACE(CTX_THES.BT(:G_SEARCH,1,'TEST_THES'),'|',',1,TEST_THES)|NT(')||',
nt({LEMON}, 1, test_thes)|nt({CITRUS}, 1, test_thes)
1 row selected.
SCOTT@orcl12c> select * from test_tab
2 where contains
3            (test_col,
4            'nt(' ||
5            replace (ctx_thes.bt (:g_search, 1, 'test_thes'), '|', ', 1, test_thes)|nt(')
6            || ', 1, test_thes)') > 0
7 /
TEST_COL
lemon
lime
orange
3 rows selected.

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