Bug 72753 - Text search and selection doesn't work with certain PDF files
Summary: Text search and selection doesn't work with certain PDF files
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 38456
Alias: None
Product: poppler
Classification: Unclassified
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All Linux (All)
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Assignee: poppler-bugs
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Reported: 2013-12-16 10:37 UTC by antti
Modified: 2015-04-17 23:31 UTC (History)
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Description antti 2013-12-16 10:37:34 UTC 
Created attachment 90830 [details]
Sample PDF

Text search and selection/copypasting doesn't work with PDF files that are created using LaTeX or similar tools. Search doesn't find results properly and copying text results in junk characters.

Search and selection usually work with text formatted as a (mathematical) formula but it's not very useful.

Search works partially in Firefox PDF viewer. Adobe Reader on Windows 7 works flawlessly.

Sample PDF file attached.


Tested on:
-Okular 0.17.3 on Arch Linux x86-64
-Okular 0.17.4 on Arch Linux x86-64
--Poppler main package version is 0.24.4-1
(pacman search for poppler shows "extra/poppler 0.24.4-1 [installed]")

-Evince on LMDE x86-64
-Xpdf on LMDE x86-64
Comment 1 Stephen Bosch 2014-02-01 13:12:32 UTC 
I have also observed this problem with poppler 24.5 when using okular 17.2 under KDE 4.11.2 in Gentoo Linux, kernel 3.7.9.
Comment 2 Jason Crain 2015-04-17 23:31:26 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 38456 ***

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