Word Search in PDF not working as expected

[jackc18297270]

I have a brand new computer using Windows 10 & Office 2016. I just edited an old PowerPoint file and saved it to PDF. I then did a word search in the newly created PDF which did not work as large blue boxes appeared. I tried this using both Adobe Reader DC & Adobe Acrobat X with similar results. I sent the document to a colleague and she cannot do a word search either. I then did a similar word search using older PDFs and it worked as expected. Any help would be appreciated.  

[Mrs.0D45]

This solved my problem, which was that the "find" was taking me to words that resembled the search term, but not directly to the exact search term. Now it seems to be fixed and I know what to do in the future: Thank you "osaydmq"! 

[Jean-François30025200r65q]

Likewise, that worked for me. Thanks! The number of things that can go wrong is astounding. Fortunately the Web is very helpful in these situations.

Shame on Adobe for not being able to maintain a decent level of robustness while imposing its format to everybody.

[Chantal5CF1]

I'm having hte same issue.  I never had that before.  Now, the seach is horrible and sometimes the search takes me to a word that is similar in spelling but definitely not the right word.  Like I could be looking for "hydrophilic" and it shoes me words that say "hydrogen".  

I've tried all the tricks and now must conclude something is wrong with adobe.  I've resorted to old school use of my index in the textbooks I'm using it for. 

[peter25123334e7x5]

Enable all Features and export the document to Ritch Text Format. You will be able to use the search function in MS Word.

[SN_Pune]

Shame Adobe Acrobat guys cannot answer.  One has to go around and eventually find no solution.  I have similar problem and not finding a correct solution or answer.  My PC is NEW has Windows10 and I dowloaded Adobe Acrobar Reader DC only yesterday.  

[SN_Pune]

Thanks, but there under document there is no such link as > OCR Text Recognition > Recognize Text

[WINTERHALO]

I found the fix!!! See the link 

Though the only difference is in my Adobe Acrobat 9 pro extended I had to go to document then down to ORC text recognition, recognize text using ORC.

I use this on scanned PDFs and it's such an amazing tool!!!

https://help.illinoisstate.edu/accessibility/website-and-digital/pdf-accessibility-with-adobe-acroba...