On 01/14/2017 10:57 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jan 2017, Uwe Ade wrote: > >> For the preparation of my lecture notes I use Lyx and latex. Students >> will >> receive a PDF document for the lecture. However, the PDF documents >> produced are not searchable for texts in the document. Can I create Lyx, >> Beamer and Latex searchable pdFs? What is to be observed? > > Can they use pdfgrep <https://pdfgrep.org/>? It works well for me (on > linux) but may not be available for all platforms.
This is puzzling to me. All the PDFs I produce using LyX are searchable. Though I notice that, with Beamer, the headers are not searchable, though the text is. Richard