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And even then it's not finding the specific text when I search a specific page. This isn't useful for me at all for work.

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Learn more. Asked 2 days ago. Active 2 days ago. The search results show all files where the text was found. For PDF files, expand the list to see the results in context. Click a search result to go to the location of the text in the PDF. Legal Notices Online Privacy Policy. Save, view, and search PDFs Search. Select an article: Select an article:. Applies to: Acrobat Reader DC. Save PDFs. Web browser. On the following screen, set the options as the following: Where would you like to search?

What word or phrase would you like to search for? You can use the additional options to customize how your word is searched, such as tick-marking the Case-Sensitive checkbox so your search query is case-sensitive, and so on.

Finally, click on the Search button to begin searching. PDF files can also be searched using the default Windows search option on your Windows machine. You need to first enable an option though as shown below. Select the File Types tab on the following screen and look for pdf in the list. Tick-mark the box for pdf.