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Subject: Identify Non-text-searchable PDFs


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Paul Wright
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Date Posted: 12:14:14 04/18/03 Fri
 PDF Explorer is a wonderful program but, like the other PDF programs I have found so far, doesn't do the one thing I need to have done. I am hoping you can either easily add to a new version or can suggest a solution otherwise.

We have many PDFs stored on our server. Some are text searchable and some are just images. There appears to be no easy way to distinguish between them in mass and mark the non-searchables for further processing. The main way to identify them is to open each document and then attempt to extract text. If that fails, it is non-searchable. It has been suggested that we can do a text search for the word Font to identify searchable PDFs. While it seems to work, we have found no automatic way to mark them to provide differentiation. (We could move them to other folders but that would create a certain amount of chaos in itself.) We are working in a Windows 2000 environment.

I had hoped that PDF Explorer would provide some indication but find that PDFs that show no data in PDF Explorer may still contain text data.

Anyhow, do you have any suggestions for me?

Thanks again for a powerful and excellent program.

-----Paul-----
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