PDF Preview not working

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  1. umdjb, May 15, 2007

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    I am trying to search for words in a PDF document using Preview but when I type text into the search box nothing comes up.

    It was working a few weeks ago...Is there a setting that I am not aware of?
     
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  2. AlexisV, May 15, 2007

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    That shouldn't happen. What happens if you try searching a plain text document instead?
     
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  3. Richard Flynn, May 15, 2007

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    Are you talking about the same PDF—i.e. you could search it before, but now you can’t? If so, then I don’t know what the problem is.

    But if you can search some PDFs and not others, then that's because some PDFs are merely pictures of a printed page, and so the software (in this case, Preview.app) doesn't know that it's dealing with text, and doesn't know how to search that text. Hope that makes sense…
     
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  4. BoughtAAPL@4.00, May 15, 2007

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    What happens if you search for those words using Acrobat Reader?
     
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