Bug 93146

Summary:	Search doesn't work correctly with some text format (LaTeX-related)
Product:	poppler	Reporter:	antti <antti.niemi>
Component:	general	Assignee:	poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	Sample PDF file, zipped

Description antti 2015-11-27 22:03:43 UTC

Created attachment 120185 [details]
Sample PDF file, zipped

Text search doesn't work properly with text that is formatted in a certain way. If such text is copied, it appears to contain spaces, even though it probably shouldn't.

Open the attached sample PDF and search for "tcsetattr" - no results. Search for "tcgetattr" - one result found on page 38, should find two.

Also try to search for "struct stat" on page 13 - no results. But searching for "struct s" works on the same page.


Tested with Okular 0.23.2 and poppler 0.37.0-1 from Arch Linux repository. Also tested with Evince 3.10.3 and unknown poppler version on Ubuntu.

Search seems to work correctly in PDF X-Change Viewer on Windows.

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