Search for specific words or terms in a possible PDF file with the search tool. The feature is present in most PDF readers on the market as the format is often used for academic texts, product manuals, books and scanned documents. The following tutorial shows you how to search the open PDF in Chrome or Adobe Reader. The walkthrough also teaches you how to extract text from scanned PDF through Google Docs, and then how to search for words in the Google cloud file.
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How to search words in a PDF in Adobe Reader
Step 1. Open the document in Adobe Reader and press the "Edit" option. Then go to "Find" to view the search tool;
When to use the Adobe Reader search tool to search words in a PDF document Photo: Reproduction / Marvin Costa
Step 2. Type the term you want to find in the search bar and press the "Enter" key on your PC keyboard;
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Step 3. To find the search results, use the "Previous" and "Next" buttons. The software will highlight the words in the document.
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How to search words in a PDF using Chrome
Step 1. Open the PDF document in Chrome and select the three dot icon in the upper right corner of the screen. Then choose the "Search" option to open the tool on the screen;
By opening Chrome's search tool to find terms in PDF documents Photo: Reproduction / Marvin Costa
Step 2. Type the term and press the "Enter" key on the computer keyboard. The browser indicates where the word was found in the document. To browse the matches, use the down and up arrow buttons.
How to search words in a scanned document in Google Docs
Step 1. Scanned PDF documents can be recognized by Google's OCR process. For the following procedure to work, have the file you scanned saved in Google Drive. First, find the document in the cloud service and right-click on it. Then, in the "Open with" option, choose "Google Docs";
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Step 2. When the document is open, choose the "Edit" option and go to "Find and Replace";
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Step 3. In "Find", type the term and press the "Enter" button on the PC keyboard. The system displays the word at different points in the document. To do this, use the "Previous" and "Next" buttons to navigate between matches.
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Use tips to save time searching PDF documents.
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