Search facility for .pdf files

Software Support
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Hi all…
Does anyone know if OJS performs OCR (optical character regognition) on uploaded .pdf files?
I’m wondereing how the search facility is able to (index) the content of .pdf’s and find the search keywords in the .pdf content.
Does the software dump the .pdf content into the database?
Thank you in advance.

Andy

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Hi @AndyJay,

So far as I know, there is no OCR done on PDF files. For text-based PDF files, there is full-text indexing though.

-Roger
PKP Team

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Thank you Rogeer for your reply.
I was looking at it the wrong way and of course the pdf’s have to be text base and hense no requirement for OCR.
Thats a big help

Thanks Again
Andy