I had trouble getting the example codes to work, but PDF::API2 / unicode characters has some pertinent info. Just from some hacking at a PDF::API2 example, this code writes out and is searchable using xpdf. I don't have acroread going because they don't have a 64 bit version yet for linux. If you download this code, open it in a unicode aware editor and resave it with Encoding set to Unicode UTF-8, it will come in from Perlmonks as Western ISO-8859-1. The Geany Editor works real nice for this kind of stuff. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use PDF::API2;

my $pdf=PDF::API2->new;

my $f1=$pdf->corefont('Helvetica',1);

foreach my $fn (qw(
    arial arialbold arialitalic arialbolditalic
)) {
    foreach my $en (qw( latin1  macroman )) {

        my $font=$pdf->corefont($fn,-encode => $en);
        print STDERR qq($fn - $en ---\n);
        my $page = $pdf->page;
        my $txt=$page->text;
        $txt->translate(100,750);
        $txt->font($font,50);
        $txt->lead(50);
        $txt->text('Hello World !');
        $txt->cr;
        $txt->font($font,20);
        $txt->text("german spec.chars: ae='ä' AE='Ä' oe='ö' ");
        $txt->cr;
        $txt->text("german spec.chars: OE='Ö' ue='ü' UE='Ü' ss='ß' ");
        $txt->cr;
        $txt->font($f1,20);
        $txt->text("This is font: $fn ($en)");

        $txt->font($font,20);

        foreach my $x (0..15) {
            foreach my $y (0..15) {
                $txt->translate(50+(33*$x),50+(33*$y));
                $txt->text(chr($y*16+$x));
            }
        }

    }
}

$pdf->saveas("$0.pdf");


$pdf->end();
exit;

__END__

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In reply to Re: PDF search problem by zentara
in thread PDF search problem by stolara

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