Description of problem: Running gs with pdfwrite on a scanned and OCR'ed PDF file the invisible text, which is used for copy/paste, is not preserved in the output file. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ghostscript-8.70-14.el5_8.1 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=all.pdf 201308070*.pdf 2. 3. Actual results: Some or all invisible text is missing in all.pdf (depending on the kind of font used in the input files) Expected results: All invisible text should still be in all.pdf Additional info: See the ghostscript bug for more info. The upstream commit is here http://ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-cvs/2010-October/011807.html I've tested the patch and it fixes the issue mentioned above. Regards, Simon
Thank you for the report. Are you able to attach a small example document that reproduces the problem?
Created attachment 783858 [details] PDF with invisible text If the file is run through ghostscript like this gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=test-gs.pdf test.pdf the output file doesn't include the invisible text anymore.
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