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How to Make a PDF Searchable Online with OCR Access the online PDF to Word converter. Drag and drop your PDF into the toolbox. Choose ?Convert text from scans.? Download the Word file, with searchable content. Go to Word to PDF to convert the file to PDF.

UltraFinder is the ultimate PDF files search tool. UltraFinder parses the text of PDF files, ignoring embedded graphics and objects, providing you a list of PDF files matching your search text including the matches themselves!

Problem: Your PDFs Aren't Searchable. It may be that you can't search your PDFs because they don't have any text in them. For example, if your PDF is a scanned document, it's just a picture of a document. It doesn't have any actual text for Windows to index.

When a PDF is opened in the Acrobat Reader (not in a browser), the search window pane may or may not be displayed. To display the search/find window pane, use "Ctrl+F".

1 Correct answer Open up PDF file in Adobe Reader. Go to the top menu bar and click Edit then Preferences. When the Preferences box opens, select the Search category on the left. When in the Search category look to the bottom and click on the Purge Cache Contents box/button.

Choose Edit > Find (Ctrl/Command+F). Type the text you want to search for in the text box on the Find toolbar. To replace text, click Replace With to expand the toolbar, then type the replacement text in the Replace With text box. Finds only occurrences of the complete word you type in the text box.

Open Adobe Acrobat on your computer. Click Open. Find and select the document you want to make searchable, then click Open. Head to Tools and select Recognize Text.