[XeTeX] how to do (better) searchable PDFs in xelatex?

Sun Oct 14 22:56:14 CEST 2012

Am 14.10.2012 um 16:30 schrieb Joe Corneli:

> However, if I extend the MWE there slightly, I can find "prefix", but
> not "quantitative".  (My PDF reader is Evince on Ubuntu 12.04.)

The capital Q is not what you see… GNU Emacs tells me:

	            character:  (displayed as ) (codepoint 57416, #o160110, #xe048)
	    preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
	code point in charset: 0xE048

The code point is in the PUA, Private Use Area. I used pdftotext version 0.20.4 to extract the text.

When I use pdftohtml version 0.20.4 to extract the text and create HTML files, I see in OmniWeb the word: îˆantitative…

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