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Title: Can search engines read PDFs?
Post by: indiaastro on February 27, 2020, 01:40:04 AM
Hello friends,


Please Tell me, Can search engines read PDFs?
Title: Re: Can search engines read PDFs?
Post by: onlinepaystubs on February 27, 2020, 02:03:10 AM
By reading do you mean that PDFs are indexed by crawlers or not?
Title: Re: Can search engines read PDFs?
Post by: sophiawils59 on February 27, 2020, 03:56:46 AM
In general, yes, Google does crawl PDFs unless they are password protected or encrypted. If the text is embedded as images, Google may process those images to extract the text.
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Post by: RH-Calvin on February 28, 2020, 01:47:22 PM
Yes search engines can read PDF files. It is a good way to build backlinks and generate traffic to your website from external webpages.
Title: Re: Can search engines read PDFs?
Post by: PoolMaster on March 02, 2020, 06:50:55 AM
Yes, Search engines like Google can easily locate and read PDF files on your website.
Title: Re: Can search engines read PDFs?
Post by: Dreamworth Solution on March 05, 2020, 06:50:12 AM
Search engines can't read images, so if you want to get your PDFs indexed, make sure they are text rather than imaged-based.
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