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can anyone tell me how to get the find fuction to work when using PDF.

New Here ,
Apr 09, 2016 Apr 09, 2016

can anyone tell me how to get the find fuction to work when using PDF. I know how to use it but it will not work in one of my PDF's  thanks in advance

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Community Expert ,
Apr 09, 2016 Apr 09, 2016

Use the menu Edit > Find

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LEGEND ,
Apr 09, 2016 Apr 09, 2016

If a PDF's content is only the image of text (i.e., scanner output) then there is nothing for "find" to work with.

Using Acrobat's OCR feature the OCR output provides something for "find" to run with.

Be well...

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New Here ,
Apr 09, 2016 Apr 09, 2016
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its in a PDF textbook that I have all my other ones work  thank you

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