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Selectable Text PDF export KeyCreator/Cadkey

Selectable Text PDF export KeyCreator/Cadkey

Selectable Text PDF export KeyCreator/Cadkey

(OP)
KeyCreator and Cadkey do not output PDF files or any other file type that allows selecting of the text on the page or sheet.  Is there a way to output a file of selectable text?  Basically, it is like the text drawn rather a font.

If I can get to selectable text, I can make our 5000 legacy KeyCreator/Cadkey files searchable.  Not only will I be able to make a search with the exported PDF work, I can use a search engine to search through all 5000 documents in seconds.


I hope someone here knows what I am talking about.

I have attached an example and shown below.


 

-Jason Nicholson
 

RE: Selectable Text PDF export KeyCreator/Cadkey

I'm pretty sure KeyCreator can't do this but there is plenty of PDF to Text converters out there, some that are free.

RE: Selectable Text PDF export KeyCreator/Cadkey

(OP)
The problem is that KeyCreator draws the text as lines and then outputs into a PDF as far as I have seen so far.  The PDF file contains no SELECTABLE text.  Download the example and see for yourself in the PDF file.
 

-Jason Nicholson
 

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