medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Apologies for jumping in if I am also misunderstanding the problem, but if
you want to search for text in a PDF, you can do so. In Acrobat Reader, go
to Edit, then Find, and type in the text you want to search for. I've also
searched for text in PDFs I was reading on the web.
Best, Carol
Carol A. Cole, Editor
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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
sorry to Rain on your Parade, Frank, but i don't think that you have
understood the problem.
there are two ways (at least) to create a .pdf (Acrobat) file:
1) scan your pages and save them in a .pdf format.
what you will have there is, essentially, a *graphics* file, similar to a
.jpg or .gif, etc. file in that it is just pixels ; there is no text *in the
file* --therefore no ability to search for text within the file. (look at a
graphics file in notepad or something and you'll just see garbage, no text.)
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