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Viewing PDF on Google Drive via Google Docs

Hello,

I uploaded a PDF to Google Drive. When I click on it, it displays like this: with the text clearly visible.

But when I click Open With Google Docs, I see gibberish, per the below. Is that expected behavior. (e.g., Google Docs is not smart enough to interpret as a PDF?)

Thank you.

PDF is attached.Test PDF in Google Docs.pdf

Kimputer

It's 50/50.
It's almost 100% never perfect (outlining, where the tables are, how it looks exactly), but it's usually also never that bad (it usually at least captures all the letters correctly, either by capturing the text or using a bit of OCR.

You are just very unlucky with that document (and each document processed the same way, or whatever Zendesk used to generated the PDF)

Stephen Kairys

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It was a simple Print dialog box setting to print to PDF. Thank you.

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Joe Winograd

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Scott Fell

Personally, I just download the pdf because I have Adobe Acrobat but you can use any pdf editor or reader. On that same top bar where you see, "Open With", to the far right there is a download icon. It is next to the print icon. If you download it, everything will be preserved. If it is already a searchable document, then it remains that way.

But you can also change the "Open With" to " and select, "Connect More Apps" and you want to find another PDF reader/editor program. Because as mentioned, opening up the PDF in a wordprocessor is many times not going to work as expected.

Stephen Kairys

ASKER

Guys,
Yes, it's an image of what would've been printed to paper. Thank you. You've assured me that it's expected behavior.

Stephen Kairys

ASKER

Thanks, everyone. Scott- I didn't have time to try out your suggestions, but I appreciate the help.
Kimputer and Joe, thanks for the help.

Joe Winograd

You're welcome, Steve, happy to help. Regards, Joe