Saved PDF pages result in text that can not be string searched/matched

[Robert Dickow]

I recently wrote a Windows desktop app (using the SF 16.1460.0.24 libraries) that searches pdf document text and extracts pages that have matches. I add the pages to new pdf documents, append additional pages to it, and ultimately save the new doc on disk. This works very well, with one little snag. I can't do the same with the saved documents. I can not search and match text in those documents I create and save. I'm missing some little detail no doubt. Any suggestions?

[Karthikeyan Chandrasekar]

Hi Robert, 

Thank you for contacting Syncfusion support. It will be more helpful if you could provide us the input PDF document and the code snippet from which the issue is reproduced. So that we could investigate in this and provide you the solution. 

Regards, 

Karthikeyan  

[Robert Dickow]

Thanks for your support. I found a solution. I have learned that in order to get the correct page structure added to a new document, I needed to use this:

`(PdfDocument) newDoc.ImportPage((PdfLoadedDocument) doc, (int) pageCounter);`

but I was using this:

`(PdfDocument) newDoc.ImportPage((PdfLoadedDocument) doc, (PdfLoadedPage) page);`

I think the second overloaded parameter is supposed to be PdfPage and not PdfLoadedPage in order to work correctly. It didn't throw and error, but the new document ended up with text that for some reason can't be searched from extractedText on followup processing of a pdf document saved from newDoc.