Re: how to search a PDF for Greek characters?

Will Adobe Reader allow you to change the language to Greek in the
Preferences? If so, you might give it a try.

I don't use Adobe products.


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Don - PDF-XChange Pro®/PDF-XChange Viewer Pro®
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"Tom Roche" <tlroche@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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How can one search a PDF for occurrences of Greek (or, for that
matter, any non-ASCII) characters? Note that I'm using Adobe Reader
8.1.4 for winXP but am open to using other tools.

I'm researching a mathematical model (i.e. a collection of
differential equations) published in an article in a scientific
journal. The article is as usual available online as a PDF. The author
appears to have defined a few, but unfortunately not all, of the
parameters in his equations. Hence I'd like to search that article,
and some related ones, for those parameters. I know how to search PDFs
(both the current document and folders containing PDFs) using Acrobat.

Unfortunately some of these parameters are Greek letters, e.g. alpha.
If I copy an instance of the Greek character alpha from the document
into the text box for the search dialog, it gets converted to the
ASCII character 'a', and it searches for instances of that ASCII
character, which is not what I want.

Apologies if this is a FAQ, but I searched this group and the Acrobat
help, as well as googling.

Feel free to reply to me directly as well as to the group,
TIA, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@xxxxxxxxx>


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