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Originally Posted by JMikeD
Your PDF documents may be PDF image files, as opposed to PDF text files.
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I've seen plenty of that. But every now-and-again I'll open a PDF file that appears to be text--you can highlight/select words, sentences, etc--but the text looks really awful. Not as bad as some of the raster-text I've seen, but still really rough around the edges. These PDF files tend to be a bit bigger than regular text PDFs: 7-10 megs for a 200 page book, for example, as opposed to 1 meg for a regular text PDF and 30-40 meg for an image-text PDF.
i'm just curious, is all: what's going on? I've assumed someone scanned the text and then vectorized it--without actually converting it into text--before making the PDF... hence it's smaller than a raster-text PDF, but larger than a text-text PDF.