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pdf documents with search highlights
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this question puzzled me for years and I hope someone, maybe Jerome himself, can finally answer it. Why do some indexed pdf documents show up with the search highlighted in FoxTrot Preview while some show the highlights only if I switch to PlainText Preview? Does this depend on the type of the pdf? If if does, what is the criteria?
I would attach two examples but unfortunately the files exceed the forum's bytes limit.
Thanks,
Peter]]>pkdirector2021-12-21T13:38:41-00:00Re: pdf documents with search highlights
https://forum.foxtrot-search.com/index.phpindex.php?t=rview&goto=1321&th=458#msg_1321
FAQ about PDF; extracting text from a PDF document is not an exact science, and we are using a different engine at indexing time, and at preview time. With some documents, the results are not identical.]]>FoxTrot Engineering2021-12-21T14:00:28-00:00Re: pdf documents with search highlights
https://forum.foxtrot-search.com/index.phpindex.php?t=rview&goto=1322&th=458#msg_1322
sales meeting, the highlighted results do appear in FoxTrot Preview. However, if I search in the same document for "sales meeting", I only see the results in PlainText Preview. Same goes for the other query syntax I have tried. Why is that? Can I fix this somehow? After all, the reason people buy the app is because they want to perform complex searches. Seeing the results only in plain text is problematic to say the least.
Thanks,
Peter]]>pkdirector2021-12-21T17:38:54-00:00Re: pdf documents with search highlights
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FoxTrot Engineering2021-12-22T11:14:44-00:00