Bug 7772 - Evince Find misses certain words in PDF documents
Summary: Evince Find misses certain words in PDF documents
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: poppler
Classification: Unclassified
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86 (IA32) Linux (All)
: high normal
Assignee: poppler-bugs
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Reported: 2006-08-04 17:07 UTC by Johan Brannlund
Modified: 2006-08-04 17:15 UTC (History)
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Description Johan Brannlund 2006-08-04 17:07:41 UTC 
This bug is from http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346333 , which I was
asked by Nickolay Shmyrev to file here instead.

Please describe the problem:
The Find facility misses certain words in PDF documents. My guess is that this
is related to ligatures.


Steps to reproduce:
1. Download the LaTeX PDF document http://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/0512076
2. Search for the string "indefinite" on the first page.
3. 


Actual results:
Evince says "0 found on this page"

Expected results:
That Evince actually finds the string "indefinite", which occurs several times
on the first page.


Does this happen every time?
Yes.

Other information:
As I stated above, I'm guessing that the bug is related to the "f-i" ligature
in "indefinite". Evince correctly finds the substring "inde", but not "indef"
or "indefi".

This is with evince 0.5.4, poppler 0.5.3 on Ubuntu Edgy.
Comment 1 Johan Brannlund 2006-08-04 17:15:26 UTC 
I didn't test this with the newer evince/poppler that had appeared since I filed
the gnome bug - this actually works now. Sorry for the noise.

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