Adobe Acrobat – Searching for text in a document
Once a scanned document has been converted to OCR, or if it was created directly from an applications, such as Word, you can search for text within it.
- From the menu bar, click on Edit then trace to and select Search
- In the search pane, type a word in the search field, then click the Search button
- In the search results panel, click on each search in the Results area and review each correlated highlighted area in the document
- Click the Hide button on the Search panel once done
