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PDF support (mupdf backend) for zathura
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cannot search pdf #28

Closed sebastinas closed 4 months ago

sebastinas commented 4 years ago

On GitLab by @to on Mar 19, 2020, 11:08

It is not possible to search words in certain PDF files, e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.00116 (while e.g. Chromium is able to do it).

local/zathura 0.4.5-1 Minimalistic document viewer local/zathura-pdf-mupdf 0.3.5-2 PDF support for Zathura (MuPDF backend) (Supports PDF, ePub, and OpenXPS)

sebastinas commented 4 years ago

On GitLab by @Dracaphallus on Mar 20, 2020, 01:20

This issue could be caused by the inability of Zathura at recognizing individual words rather than recognizing individual characters present in that document you provided. I have confirmed the lack of the following issue in other documents.

I am not aware of a resolution to this issue and thus hope the developer would be able to resolve the following issue in the coming days!

sebastinas commented 4 years ago

On GitLab by @utr on Apr 3, 2020, 23:15

Similar issue here. I cannot find words or even just partial words (e.g. like "tia" from word "partial"). It find numbers perfectly (e.g. numbers, years).

It happens on pdf I made myself from compiling r-markdown notes, for example, but not with scientific papers.

Have tried in Okular and it can find everything in my "hand-made" pdf's.

PS: have tried in muPDF and it has same behaviour. It cannot find words or partial words but it finds numeric strings. Can be muPDF related?

sebastinas commented 4 years ago

On GitLab by @Nima on Apr 9, 2020, 11:24

I can confirm this issue on my linux box only with zathura-pdf-mupdf. With zathura-pdf-poppler instead of mupdf the problem resolved.

sebastinas commented 4 years ago

On GitLab by @utr on Apr 9, 2020, 12:11

You made my day. Thank you @Nima, that solved the problem. So we can confirm then it's mupdf related?

sebastinas commented 4 years ago

On GitLab by @Nima on Apr 9, 2020, 12:29

@utr, you're welcome :)

Regarding mupdf, I guess so. But I'm not expert to confirm that.

sebastinas commented 4 years ago

moved from zathura#126

sebastinas commented 4 years ago

On GitLab by @eliasyoussef on Sep 8, 2020, 13:04

Yes, this is an issue, apparently with version 1.15 of mupdf. The bug report is here: https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701977

The issue status is solved, but in the zathura-pdf-mupdf 0.3.5-3 available now in the Arch repository the problem remains. Maybe in the update they posted here two day ago they already incorporated the last version of mupdf. I am waiting for the update in the arch repository, still, to test it. https://github.com/pwmt/zathura-pdf-mupdf/releases

sebastinas commented 4 months ago

Issue in mupdf. Closing