Issues with searching for text within PDF attachment

[Angelina Cordaro]

Hello,

I am having trouble searching for text within an attached PDF doc. Could this have something to do with the document previously being a PNG file? Thank you!

[Davin Studer · Accepted solution]

Yes. If the PDF was created from an image then there is no text actually in the PDF and hence you don't get anything in search results. I believe in Acrobat Pro there is an option to do OCR on the image and store a text rendition along with the pdf for search-ability. It stores it hidden in the PDF and should be indexed by the search engine.

[Angelina Cordaro]

Makes sense, thank you Davin!