Hmm... interesting. I could have sworn I'd scanned stuff into PDF documents before and then searched 'em, but I guess not... I just tried something on our "scans" folder on the server and it was exactly what you said would happen.
-----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 1:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Copiers On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 1:05 PM, John Aldrich<[email protected]> wrote: > Well, our Kyocera copiers do PDF as well. I've searched them. I'm not sure > what makes a PDF searchable or not, so I can't say for sure. Something has to run OCR against the scanned image and add the computer text equivalent. Otherwise the PDF is just a big image to the computer. You can search it, but it won't find anything. :-) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.54/2300 - Release Date: 08/13/09 06:11:00 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
