Searching PDF's

Question

I am running into the problem of not being able to search my PDF's for specified words. I use a Ricoh printer/scanner to scan in my documents, then have them emailed to myself. It creates a PDF. I then post the PDF into a SHARED Network drive on in my folders but I can't search for key words through those scanned documents. Which would be very helpful. Any advice or am I SOL?

Thanks.

Brad @ Roaring Mouse · Answer

Purely scanned pages can't be searched unless the file has been OCR'd. If you are using full Acrobat, it should warn you of this fact when you try to search, and offer to do it for you. If you are viewing this in just Acrobat Reader, that option is not available... you can only view.

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