search problem with evince

[Shelagh Manton]

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:59:59 +0100, Luqman wrote:

> hi,
> 
> I am a bit confused why evince would search in one pdf file correctly
> but in another not. It does not find any result for text that is
> certainly available in pdf file.
> 
> This is the file that is not searched correctly:
> http://www.ti-wmc.nl/eurane/D32v2Seacorn.pdf.gz File needs to be
> gunzipped before viewing in evince..
> 
> Can anyone give me a hint? Or has anyone seen that search problem with
> evince before??

Some pdfs are not made from text and transformed to the pdf format. They
are scanned pictures of pages. I think this might be why you cannot search
for words because the book is actually pictures not words. I tried the
pdftotext utility and it just output gobbledygook. So, not much text in
that document.

Shelagh