Re: Compare two PDFs

Ah, I see... my fault. I thought he meant with a text editor.

On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 10:41 AM John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 11:37 AM B Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 10:29 AM Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

Easy way to tell, when you open the PDF, can you successfully search

for

text.

Not always. There are text PDFs, and raster image PDFs. The raster

image

PDFs cannot be searched (well, maybe they can since OCR is getting

better).

But PDFs can be created with plain text in view, but also compressed

and/or

encrypted where you can see or read the text just using a text editor.

I think Charles was talking about opening the PDF in something like
Adobe Reader, and seeing if text can be searched there.

John Y.
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