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search PDFs with non-standard character encodings

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 202612822 views
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Some PDF files produce garbage ("mojibake") when you copy text (even though they render OK). This makes it impossible to search them (whatever you search for will not match the garbage). Does anyone have an easy workaround? Examples: TEAC TV manual EU2816STF (yields above problems in Adobe Reader o…

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Fix for: search PDFs with non-standard character encodings

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Foxit Reader, perhaps? For what it's worth, I just checked the PDF you linked to with Safari 4.0.4 on Mac OS X 10.6.2 and while there is some Engrish, the PDF it renders flawlessly without any onscreen "garbage". Perhaps you're having Unicode issues…

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