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Search Text in PDF. Search and Highlight
The search tool is one of pdfFiller’s the latest enhancements. Using this tool, you can find a word or a phrase in a PDF document. Now you will save even more time editing or annotating your PDFs because our search tool not only finds words, but also enables you to erase, highlight, and redact them. To activate the Search tool, click the Search button on the main toolbar or press CTRL+F on your keyboard.
The search toolbar will appear under the editing tools.
Type the text you want to find in the search field. The counter will show you the total number of search terms found in the document and the ordinal number of the current search term. The currently selected term is highlighted in green, the others in red.
To jump to the next search term, click the down arrow; to go to the previous instance, click the up arrow.
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Why can't I highlight text in a PDF?
The document is secured or protected To keep the PDF document secure, the author or distributor may have disabled edits and comments, which means that those viewing and using the document cannot highlight text on it.
How do I extract specific text from a PDF?
Method 1: Copy and Paste the Text One of the most widely used options to extract text from PDF documents is to simply copy and paste the text. Many people prefer this method because copying and pasting text is a familiar process — something that you do nearly every day.
How do I make text searchable in Acrobat PDF?
Make a PDF searchable with Adobe Acrobat. 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. Press PDF Output Style Searchable Image. Select OK.
How do I select specific text in a PDF?
Right-click the document, and choose Select Tool from the pop-up menu. Drag to select text, or click to select an image.
How to search highlights in Adobe?
To jump to highlighted text, do the following: Click Show/Hide Navigation Panel on the top toolbar to show the Navigation panel. In the Navigation Panel, click the Bookmarks tab. Click on the highlight to jump to specific highlighted text.
How do I search for specific text in a PDF?
How To Search for a Word in a PDF Using Any PDF Reader Open any PDF with your default PDF reader. Press CTRL+F (Windows) or CMD+F (Mac). In the text box, enter your search term. The first match will be highlighted. Press “Enter” or click the right arrow to navigate between the results.
How do I search specifically for a PDF?
1.Google's "filetype:" Operator for Searching Type "filetype:pdf" followed by your desired keyword to find PDFs on a specific topic.
Why can't I search for words in PDF?
One of the main reasons why PDFs are not searchable is that they don't include any text. The PDF may be a scanned document or just an image-based document. If that's the case, then there is no searchable text. You can read the text within the image-based document, but the PDF tool cannot.
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