Bug 701979

Summary: Text not searchable with T1 fontenc
Product: MuPDF Reporter: simone.perriello
Component: mupdfAssignee: MuPDF bugs <mupdf-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: major CC: simone.perriello
Priority: P4    
Version: 1.16.1   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
Customer: Word Size: ---
Attachments: An affected PDF

Description simone.perriello 2019-12-08 14:21:48 UTC
Created attachment 18695 [details]
An affected PDF

PDF files produced with latex using the T1 fontenc have text that is not searchable. The same happens with zathura if the mupdf backend is used.
On the other hand, all the other viewers are able to search for the text easily.
Comment 1 simone.perriello 2019-12-08 14:47:20 UTC
I've just seen that the bug has already been mentioned here https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701977 and here https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701602
Comment 2 simone.perriello 2019-12-08 14:57:15 UTC
With the file uploaded previously, here is the results of `mutool` and `pdftolatex`
#>mutool draw -F txt tmp.pdf 
H
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T o d o
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#>pdftotext tmp.pdf

Hola amigo

Todo bien
Comment 3 simone.perriello 2019-12-08 14:57:55 UTC
(In reply to simone.perriello from comment #1)
> I've just seen that the bug has already been mentioned here
> https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701977 and here
> https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701602

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 701602 ***
Comment 4 Tor Andersson 2020-01-02 15:17:11 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 701977 ***