** Changed in: evince
Status: Confirmed => Expired
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/590834
Title:
Find (ctrl-f) can be used even though the pdf-file has no
Just 2 additional comments:
-simple-scan should ocr and add a text version of the image in invisible
characters, overlayed on the actual images
-evince could ocr pdf files that only have images in them
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Importance: Unknown = Medium
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Find (ctrl-f) can be used even though the pdf-file has no searchable text.
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Agreed. Optimal solution would be a visual cue - images and text with
different, very light colored backgrounds (or frames).
But that's it for this issue from my side.
A similar bug was already filed upstream; I added my stuff.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=596888
And a patch
** Changed in: evince (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Triaged
** Also affects: evince via
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=596888
Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
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Find (ctrl-f) can be used even though the pdf-file has no searchable text.
** Changed in: evince
Status: Unknown = Confirmed
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Find (ctrl-f) can be used even though the pdf-file has no searchable text.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/590834
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Maybe the search-routine was invoked - that's an internal technical
view. If the search function can only be applied to text (which is the
case here) then evince should try to be smart about it when no object
(text) for the function (find) is available.
I installed acrobat reader to see if it
Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would
be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people
writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)
** Changed in: evince (Ubuntu)
Importance: Low = Wishlist
** Changed in: evince
you are right there is one case where it would work, my point was that a
75 pages documents with only image and one line of text would not
display this warning and still fall in the search is useless on this
document category, your workaround is only for a very specific case
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Find (ctrl-f) can
Just to clarify: my issue is the user interface. I feel I've been
mislead when the app say's it didn't find a word, where in reality no
search took place.
the search took place but your example has no text only images, evince
could try to be smart about it and that would work in cases where you
could you attach an example to the report? Thanks.
** Changed in: evince (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Low
** Changed in: evince (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Incomplete
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Find (ctrl-f) can be used even though the pdf-file has no searchable text.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/590834
Just to clarify: my issue is the user interface. I feel I've been
mislead when the app say's it didn't find a word, where in reality no
search took place.
Okay, the example:
I printed this bug report page, scanned it with simple-scan, now it's a PDF.
Open with Evince, ctrl-f and search for
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