Using poppler-0.5.4, I experience the following issue when searching for hyphenated words. Let's take http://www.free-culture.cc/freeculture.pdf. If you search for "software" on it using poppler (through evince) you won't find "soft-ware" on page xiii, but using acroread you'll find it. This seems to have to do with a way of generating PDF documents and not with acroread itself, since searching for "translation" on http://pdf.codev2.cc/Lessig-Codev2.pdf, neither poppler nor acroread will find "transla-tion" on page ix. Thanks for your excellent work, Pablo
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 11381 ***
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