From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <624a5065215f7c22a00a83e7eb3d0a65@9srv.net> Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 06:05:24 -0400 From: a@9srv.net To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] text search in PDF? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7b2d31aa-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 // Can I look for a string while browsing a PS/PDF some PS/PDF (i've confirmed what i'm about to say in one, but not both, and can't remember which) files include the actual text of their content; others only treat the letters as more graphics. searching for text is possible in the first but not the later (without implementing OCR). i cannot speak to how difficult it would be to implement said search. i, too, miss this feature.=20 =E3=82=A2