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lagf
lagf
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September 22, 2017
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Search multiple values with acrobat pro

  • September 22, 2017
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I have the following list of words and phrases to search within a set of PDFs in a folder:

  • Work from home
  • test
  • homework
  • regular assistance
  • irregular equations
  • algorithms

When I search words [test OR homework OR algorithms], the search results are ok.

But when I try to search phrases ["regular assistance" OR "irregular equations" OR algorithms] the search doesn't gave me any result.

I am using the following options:

  • Return results containing: "Boolean query"
  • Stemming (is checked)

Thanks in advance for your support.

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Correct answer try67

You can only use single words in this kind of search, it seems.

You can submit a feature request to change that: Feature Request/Bug Report Form

Alternatively, it's possible to use a script to highlight all the search results, and then you could simply aggregate multiple searches to get the results for all of them.

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try67
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try67Community ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
September 22, 2017

You can only use single words in this kind of search, it seems.

You can submit a feature request to change that: Feature Request/Bug Report Form

Alternatively, it's possible to use a script to highlight all the search results, and then you could simply aggregate multiple searches to get the results for all of them.

lagf
lagfAuthor
Participant
October 4, 2017

Would you mind to share an example of a script to highlight all the search results?

Do you know if it is possible to change de output of the "save as CVS"?

Thanks in advance.

try67
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try67Community Expert
Community Expert
October 4, 2017

I've developed a tool that does just that: Custom-made Adobe Scripts: Acrobat -- Highlight All Instances of a Word or Phrase in a PDF

As far as I know, no, you can't change the output of the CSV file, but you can create your own output, again, using a script.

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