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Checking a PDF for searchable text in Acrobat 9

By Rowan Hanna on 2 October, 2008 | 69 views , No Comment

Leonard Rosenthol has posted a tip on how to automatically check a PDF for searchable text using Acrobat 9’s Preflight feature:

With one of the many new checks that we’ve added to Acrobat 9 Preflight, you can easily detect whether any text in a PDF can not be properly encoded as Unicode (aka can be extracted/searched properly).

He’s included a profile for Acrobat 9’s Preflight on his blog which you can download for free.

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