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Search Text in PDF
pdfFiller helps you quickly spot the word or phrase you’re looking for in a document regardless of how often it appears or the length of the document. Use the Search tool to find a word or a phrase in the currently open document. To activate the Search tool, click the magnifier icon in the main toolbar or press CTRL+F on your keyboard.
Type the text you want to find in the search field. The counter will show you the number of the current search term and the total number of search terms found in the document. The current search term is highlighted in green, the others are highlighted in red. To jump to the next instance of the search term, click Next; to return to the previous instance, click Previous.
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Is a PDF document searchable?
Generally, PDF files created from Microsoft Office Word and other documents are by their nature searchable as the source document contains text which is replicated in the PDF, but when creating a PDF from a scanned document and OCR process needs to be applied to recognize the characters within the image.
How do I convert a PDF to a searchable PDF for free?
To start, Click on Choose File to select your PDF file.
Under Options, Choose the Language of the PDF document.
Click on Start which will upload your file and start the OCR process.
Start button becomes Download button when the process is finished.
Click on Download to start downloading the resulting PDF to your device.
Why can't I search my PDF document?
Cause. It's possible that you don't have an “filter” in place for PDF documents. To explain, the Windows indexing service doesn't understand the PDF file format, so you need an filter, which is a helper for PDF files.
How do you search and replace in Nitro PDF?
Find and Highlight, Find and Redact, or Find and Replace From a search you can highlight, redact, or replace keywords and phrases. Access these options a couple of ways. Choose Edit > Find > Find and Redact… or Find and Replace… Open the Find window (Command+F) from the menu bar for highlight, redact, or replace.
How can you make a document searchable?
Make a PDF searchable with Adobe Acrobat. 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 to enable OCR in Nitro?
To use ocr without the smart tip select the review tab and choose ocr you'll be given the option toMoreTo use ocr without the smart tip select the review tab and choose ocr you'll be given the option to make the document searchable. Or both searchable and editable.
How to find words in Nitro?
To find text in a document: Under the Home tab, click the Find button or press Ctrl+F. The left-side panel will open and a search box will appear. After you run a search, all matching results for the word or phrase will be identified in the Search panel in page order.
How to do a specific search in PDF?
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.
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