Word to pdf not searchable

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  • Hi 

    I am using C# code to convert to word to pdf. We created exe out of C# coade and using in our java program. The pdf is creating successfully but the problem is it is not searchable. It is creating as bitmap instead of text. I need your help here. I am pasting
    my code below. Your help is appreciated. Thanks . Sridhar

                                    

    using System;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.Collections;
    using System.Diagnostics;
    using System.ComponentModel;
    using System.Data;
    using System.Drawing;
    using System.Linq;
    using System.Text;
    using Word = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word;
    using System.IO;
    using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word;
    namespace DocToPdfConverter
    {

        public class DocToPdfConverter
        {

            static int Main(string[] args)
            {
                String inputFileName = args[0];
                String outputFileName = args[1];
                Console.WriteLine(«Started Converting Word Document To Pdf >> …..»);
                DocToPdfConverter dc = new DocToPdfConverter();
                Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application application = new                          

                                     Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application();

                dc.ConvertToPdf(inputFileName, outputFileName, application);
                Console.WriteLine(«Successfully Done With PDF Conversion.»);
                return 0;
            }

            public void ConvertToPdf(String inputFileName, String outputFileName,                                  Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application
    application)
            {
                object originalFormat = null;
                object routeDocument = false;
                object saveOption = null;
                Word.Bookmarks bookmarks = null;
                string bookmarkNames = string.Empty;
                String outName = string.Empty;
                try
                {
                    object missing = System.Reflection.Missing.Value;
                    object readOnly = false;
                    object isVisible = true;
                    object inputsFileName = inputFileName;
                    application.Visible = true;
                    application.DefaultWebOptions().AlwaysSaveInDefaultEncoding = true;
                    Word.Document aDoc = application.Documents.Open(ref inputsFileName, ref missing,
                    ref readOnly, ref missing, ref missing,
                    ref missing, ref missing, ref missing,
                    ref missing, ref missing, ref missing,
                    ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref isVisible);
                    saveOption = Word.WdSaveOptions.wdDoNotSaveChanges;
                    originalFormat = Word.WdOriginalFormat.wdOriginalDocumentFormat;
                    object fileFormat = WdSaveFormat.wdFormatPDF;
                    object outputFileNames = outputFileName;

                    if (aDoc != null)
                    {
                        Console.WriteLine(«Before Export…….»);
                    aDoc.ExportAsFixedFormat(  outputFileName, WdExportFormat.wdExportFormatPDF, false,
                                                     WdExportOptimizeFor.wdExportOptimizeForPrint,
                                                     WdExportRange.wdExportAllDocument, 0, 0,
                                                     WdExportItem.wdExportDocumentContent, true, true,
                                                     WdExportCreateBookmarks.wdExportCreateHeadingBookmarks,        
                                                                        true,true, false, ref
    missing);
                    Console.WriteLine(«After Export…………..»);
                    }

                }
                catch (Exception e)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine(e);
                }
                finally
                {
                    application.Quit(ref saveOption, ref originalFormat, ref routeDocument);
                }

            }
        }
    }

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      Tuesday, September 1, 2015 11:55 AM

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      CoolDadTx
      Tuesday, September 1, 2015 7:29 PM
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Answers

  • Hi Sridhar,

    >>The pdf is creating successfully but the problem is it is not searchable. It is creating as bitmap instead of text.<<

    The issue is not relative to the code generate the PDF file, the PDF is generated correctly by Word application. It depends on the tools/library you used to open the PDF.  

    You also could use Word 2013 to open, manipulate it.

    Hope it is helpful.

    Regards & Fei


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    • Proposed as answer by
      Fei XueMicrosoft employee
      Friday, September 4, 2015 7:14 AM
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      Thursday, September 10, 2015 6:06 AM

I want to generate pdf from MS Word, but the pdf format should be somehow like a scanned document (i.e., pdf as image, and all text is not searchable).

At the moment, I have 2 solutions:

  1. print out the Word Document and scan back to computer as pdf (but it is a kind of wasting paper)

  2. install some pdf printer tools that is available on internet (but I do not have the admin right for installation)

Therefore, is there any other way to do this?

Thanks!

asked Aug 25, 2019 at 4:45

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Use an online converter such as https://www.zamzar.com to convert your document to multipage tiff. That should get rid of any text and leave you with a file that just contains images.

Then either print that to .pdf if you have the appropriate printer driver on your operating system, or use the same or another service to convert the .tif to a .pdf.

answered Aug 25, 2019 at 20:04

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