Search strings are not always found correctly

[sschuberth]

I'm using Sumatra PDF 3.0 (32-bit) on Windows 7 (64-bit). For some PDFs, not all occurrences of a string that is obviously present are found. For example if you search for "Kund" in this PDF you'll find the occurrences in "Privatkundengeschäft" and "Geschäftskunden", but not the ones in "Kundin", "Kunde", "Kunden".

If I save the PDF as a text file from Sumatra it becomes more or less obvious why: For example the line that should say

Sehr geehrte Postbank Kundin, sehr geehrter Postbank Kunde,

instead says

peÜr geeÜrte mostÄank hundinI seÜr geeÜrter mostÄank hundeI

To me this looks like some OCR gone mad. To double check that the text is not stored as an image I've installed Abobe Reader 11.0.10 which is able to search the PDF just fine.

[sschuberth]

PS: Xpdf's pdftotext seem to have the same issue, it generates (almost) the same extracted text.

[sschuberth]

Thanks for fixing this so quickly! For anyone interested, a snapshot build is available here.