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Hello! I am new to using Ajax Search Pro and have followed the very detailed set up instructions and manuals. Everything seems to be working properly but the search is not searching any PDF documents. These documents do have OCR, so they are searchable. One of the PDFs in question is located at http://172.105.155.18/flagler-tribune/flagler-tribune-issue-1918-dec-12/.
Using words directly from the PDF, such as CIGARS, it doesn’t bring up the PDF in the results.
Am I missing a setting?
Hi,
Thank you for the details, it helped a lot.
I tried and downloaded that PDF file to run some tests on it. Some of the content is indeed accessible, but there are lots of invalid/incomplete characters as well, and that conflicted greatly with both parsers.
It took a few hours, but I managed to make it work. It extracted around 3000 words from that document. I still think some words may be missing, but it should be much much better now.I will make sure to include this improvement in the upcoming release.
As you saw, that’s an OCR scan of a newspaper. I have weekly issues from Dec 1918 through Dec 1987 to upload. I did find a workaround, creating a 0 px font and paste of the OCR text, but that would be for 3000+ issues, and a lot of volunteer hours on my end, which is why I purchased a search plugin to do that work for me. 😉 What can I do to replicate your fix while I wait for the updated plugin?
Thanks!
Ashley
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