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Chapter 12: Searching and indexing
You have lots of control and lots of possibilities for running effective and efficient searches in Adobe Acrobat. A
search can be broad or narrow, including many different kinds of data and covering multiple Adobe PDFs.
If you work with large numbers of related PDFs, you can define them as a catalog, which generates a PDF index for
the PDFs. Searching the PDF index—instead of the PDFs themselves—dramatically speeds up searches.
Quickstart
The following topics provide simple steps to some common searching tasks.
Search for text
Use Find to search for text in an open PDF.
Type search terms in the Find text box on the toolbar.
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(Optional) Click the arrow next to the Find text box and select any desired options, such as Include Bookmarks.
Press Enter.
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To search all PDFs in a folder, choose Open Full Acrobat Search from the Find pop-up menu, click All PDF
Documents In, and then select the folder you want to search.
See also
"Find text in a PDF" on page 374
Search for text in comments
You can search for text in comments, as well as the body of the PDF.
Type search terms in the Find text box on the toolbar.
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Click the arrow next to the Find text box and select Include Comments.
Press Enter.
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To see all search results at once, choose Open Full Acrobat Search from the Find pop-up menu and select In The
Current PDF Document and Include Comments.
See also
"Find text in a PDF" on page 374
Search PDFs in a package
You can search all PDFs in an Adobe PDF package or only selected PDFs.
Open the package you want to search.
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Type search terms in the Find text box, and choose Open Full Acrobat Search from the Find pop-up menu.
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