searchable pdf

  • pnet

    (@pnet)


    10 years, 4 months ago

    Is there a way to have the content in a pdf file searchable?

    Or is there another file type, that can not be edited, that will allow the content to be searchable?

    I need to upload or somehow display these files but have the content searchable to users.

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  • Clayton James

    (@claytonjames)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    Generally speaking, .pdf files are already searchable in most .pdf readers or plugins. Once a .pdf document is opened for reading Ctrl+F opens a search box that allows searching of the .pdf document content. The content won’t be searchable from the search box on your WordPress site because the data isn’t stored in the database. It’s only stored in the .pdf file itself.

    Thread Starter pnet

    (@pnet)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    Is there another file type that would allow the document to be searchable on the website?

    Or would I need to make the document content actual website content for it to be searchable?

    catacaustic

    (@catacaustic)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    Only text that’s stored in the database aas the posts/pages/etc title and content is searched when you use the standard WordPress search functionality.

    There’s other search plugins that can extend the functionality for searching, but I haven’t come across any so far that will read and index PDF files.

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