By accident I came across one solution to creating a searchable PDF, this is not a solution for everyone because it uses Adobe Acrobat X.?
I sent a PDF schematic to an assembly house, the person who opened it had Adobe Acrobat X installed. When they opened the schematic the following happened:
Acrobat told him that the PDF was not searchable because it is a flat copy with no text layer. He selected the note and it went through all the pages and then the PDF was searchable. He sent me the PDF back and sure enough it's searchable.?
Adobe has a video on how to do this here:
Hope this is a solution for somebody. Now I just need to find a friend with Acrobat X. :)
- Eric
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Robert
<birmingham_spider@...> wrote:
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I too have appreciated PDF files created in other CAD packages that are
text searchable. I guess it would help to raise the profile of kicad
amongst other engineers (those who see a useful feature and poke around
to see what created it), but I can understand why the developers might
not want to write the code.
Regards,
Robert.
On 04/12/2011 19:37, Berwyn Hoyt wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> As you know, it is easy to create PDFs from Circad using a program lie
> PdfCreator. But PDFs created this way are not text-searchable.
>
> I have appreciated searchable schematic PDFs produced by other CAD packages
> because a third party can decipher a pdf, compare it with the BOM, search for
> net names, component identifiers, etc., all without having to install the CAD
> package.
>
> I do not know how or why a PDF becomes text-searchable, but I do know that the
> other cad packages I've used have done it automatically even when creating the
> PDF using PdfCreator.
>
> I'm interested to know:
>
> 1. whether others would find this a useful feature
> 2. whether any of the programmers know how hard/easy this is to add.
>
> Many thanks,
> Berwyn
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