Where can I find and install the Adobe Search Plug-in?

Ah, is it this:

The Adobe Acrobat Search plug-in allows users to perform text searches in PDF documents. It adds menus, menu items, toolbar button, and a Search panel to the Acrobat viewer.

The Search plug-in exports a Host Function Table (HFT) containing several methods that can be used by other plug-ins.

If so, then you can use this API if you are writing a plug-in in C/C++. However, from your post, we assume you are NOT writing a plug-in.

Thanks Karl,

But I'm still stuck.  BTW, it's Help->About Adobe Plugins..., not File->About Adobe Plugins.  Maybe I was confused here because it says "Not Loaded" in the about dialog.  So, I guess it is installed, but I still don't know how to load it.  I've got the full API document, but nothing in it tells me what file to reference, how to create the search object, or how to browse the classes, etc..  Let me give you an example using VBA:

Sub FindMyText()

     dim MySearchObject as Object   ' What can I put here to be more specific than just Object?  I've searched everywhere

                                                          ' and can't find an answer.

     Set MySearchObject = ?????      ' What do I put in here in place of the question marks? 

                                                          ' E.g. what is the class ID for the search object?

End Sub

I've referenced every dll, lib, and ocx I could find on my computer that was related to Adobe.  But nothing gives me a search object and I can't find any of the methods, etc., when I search with the object browser.

But, what's most frustrating, is that I can't find any Adobe documentation, public blogs, or discussion groups that answer the question.  I do find the same question asked a lot, though.

My dissatisfaction with FindText (BTW, I'm using AcroAVDoc.FindText, not AVApp.FindText; are they the same thing?  I can't find any such object/class named AVApp), has nothing to do with the UI features; it simply isn't reliable.  There are several posts, including mine, on the web and in this community asking about the problems, but they are never answered.  E.g., there are at least two posts on here about FindText never returning that have not been answered.  There's also several posts elsewhere about how FindText finds the wrong text.  I've experienced both problems enough that I need to find an alternative.  In my current project, I'm trying to search through large PDF files for the text "Subject:".  But in one case, it finds and selects the word "of"; in another, it finds and selects some random dots in a graphic.  When I do the same find on the same document using the UI, it says it can't find the text. 

Why do  you say the JSObject won't help?  The JSObject.GetPageNthWord() function does a great job.  It's just too slow.  Also, the Search Object documentation in the Acrobat API Reference, documents a lot more functionality than just FindText. 

Also, another problem I haven't been able to solve using FindText is a reliable way to know when you've reached the end of the file in your search.  There are other posts, unanswered, on here about this problem too.  One calls it the infinite loop.  The best solution I've found so far is to check the page number after each find if if the page number is less than the previous page number, I know I've passed the end and wrapped around to the beginning.  But this fails if the search text exists twice, but only on the last page of the document.  I can't seem to get an answer from anyone on this problem too. It would be nice if there was some sort of function that would tell me what word I'm on, not just what page.  E.g., JSObect.GetPageWordNum().  Or even if there as a call I could make to retrieve the rect that contains the word found, I could work with that.

My biggest issues is that the only place I can get support for the Acrobat API is in the community.  Adobe promotes it as "Ask the Experts," but I rarely get any response to most of my postings.  For some reason, I got lots of responses to this one. :-)  If Adobe wants us developers to write applications to help sell copies of Adobe Acrobat Pro DC, they need to give us access to APIs that work as reliably as the ones they use in their UI, and give us better support.

Enough of my soapbox; can you help me?