Can't search text inside PDF

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Hi,

i’m deciding to switch to Obsidian from Evernote and testing it on windows PC.

I installed omnisearch/text extractor.
Enabled the pdf search.

When I search inside a french pdf (I set the fra language), nothing is returned.

I tried to delete the text extractor cache, restarted… nothing happens, not even sure if it reindexing any file, as there is no indication, no cache status, nothing.

Is this a know problem? How am I supposed to have it work.

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You might want to ask directly in the plugin’s discussion forum.

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not even sure if it reindexing any file, as there is no indication, no cache status, nothing.

I had that issue as well.

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.pdf files come in different ways… there are:

  1. .pdf files without underlying text (just a picture of the text, not searchable.)
  2. and those with a real text layer, embedded in the file. Only these are searchable!

This might also be the root cause for the not working search mechanism you described!

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Good point !
the omnisearch has an OCR function to convert image pdfs to pdfs with text !
Not sure the OP has done that.