Exporting a PDF changes the file, whereas drag&drop doesn't

[chrillek]

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DT change pdfs in a way they can't be indexed by some libraries

Hi Since I’m a Obsidian user too, I was trying to index with this plugin, GitHub - scambier/obsidian-omnisearch: A search engine that "just works" for Obsidian. Includes OCR and PDF indexing. that uses the “minisearch” library, few pdfs. I noticed that when I use pdfs exported from the Devonthink database the library fail to index them, the same, pdf but kept outside Devonthink, is correctly indexed. These pdfs are both not ocred, ocred in DT or ocred with other software so It doesn’t relate …

There might be more going on than adding extended attributes on export: the file size increases by a lot. Also, I didn’t add any meta data in DT, only imported and exported the PDF into the inbox of a test database. So, there were no connects comments nor tags to be added.