How to create a searchable text pdf using itextsharp and c#

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Hi,
i have converted a tif file into pdf file. and now i want to create a searchable pdf using itextsharp.dll in c#.
if any one have idea, please suggest me.

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Posted 27-Oct-13 0:36am

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borntrouble · Answer 1 · 2013-10-27T05:57:00

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The current pdf you've got is an image converted to pdf. Hence it cannot be directly made searchable.

your tiff file should be first OCR'ed and then get it converted into PDF file so that it can be
searchable.

for OCR you can use the open source Tesseract OCR engine.

Hope this helps

Posted 27-Oct-13 5:57am

borntrouble