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Does Google Search PDFs

warrenaldo · 2007-04-18 13:55:05

Hi folks - was just wondering whether google searches PDFs or not - does it do a full text search of the PDF or does it just search the filename?

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18-04-2007 2:55pm

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warrenaldo

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Hi folks - was just wondering whether google searches PDFs or not - does it do a full text search of the PDF or does it just search the filename?

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#2 18-04-2007 2:58pm
aidan_walsh

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Google can and often do index PDF files. You can often find that they will convert files to a HTML file.

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#3 18-04-2007 4:20pm
damnyanks

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IS it easy to convert PDF to text? (I've no googled this)

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#4 20-04-2007 9:52pm
mwrf

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select the text in the pdf,
copy and paste.

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#5 21-04-2007 8:48am
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If the pdf has text stored in it, google will convert it. Some PDFs are effectively images and the text isn't stored as text, so can't be searched

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