Searchable text in PDF

[ThomasKirkman]

I know that the newest version of Creo Elements/Direct Modeling has the ability to search text in cad. Does this allow the creation of PDFs with searchable text?

Thanks

Tom

[AndyPoulsen]

Hi Tom,

AI MAXTools' AI MAX Export2D function  has had this capability since 2015. We do it by adding invisible text to the PDF file so that the appearance of the drawing is unchanged.

Here's a simple example of how you would use it with a current drawing loaded (it also supports batch mode for processing multiple files at once):

For more info on this functionality, please visit the AI DataMAX product page. 

We offer a free trial of our tools to anyone who would like to try them.   

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask!

Thanks!

andy