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  • Thanks for the heads-up about a possible fix for the Preview PDF-corruption bug. The link is actually a discussion about corruption of OCR information in pdf documents generated with the ScanSnap scanner and software. I did not find any information…
    in PDF text searchability sometimes lost Comment by foret37 April 20, 2017
  • An important challenge associated with the OCR corruption problem is to identify those pdfs that have been corrupted. The bash script below will search through a directory containing pdf files, and check each one against four tests, including a test…
    in PDF text searchability sometimes lost Comment by foret37 September 27, 2015
  • I finally discovered the source of this problem: Mac Preview (which is built on the Quartz pdf engine in Mac OS X) has a conflict with the embedded fonts used by ClearScan OCR in Adobe Acrobat. This problem first surfaced in ~2009, and is still acti…
    in PDF text searchability sometimes lost Comment by foret37 September 27, 2015