Search Tab

The Search toolbar contains several tools for working with search results. None of these tools are available until after a Text Search or Visual Search has been run.

 Expand All: Shows all results.

 Collapse All: Shows only the filenames to make navigation easier.

  Clear Search Results: Clears the current search results list.

Text must be present in the PDF file for text search to find it. Scanned PDF files are images and do not contain any text, so they are not searchable. See Searching PDFs for more information on running a text search on a PDF.

• Search Pages: Searches for text in the content of the PDF.
• Search Filenames: Searches the file names in the Recents list when Search In is set to Recents.
• Search File Properties: Searches for text in the Properties metadata fields.
• Search Form Fields: Searches for text in the data entered in the form fields.
• Search Markups: Searches for text in markups.
• Case Sensitive: Searches for text with the exact case typed in the Search Terms field.
• Whole Words Only: Searches only for instances where the search term exists as a complete word. If the search term is partially contained in another word and the Whole Words Only box is checked, it will not be included in the search results.

VisualSearch^TM allows for the searching of graphical symbols in PDFs. To set the search criteria, define a rectangle around the symbol or graphic that you want to search for in the document. See Searching PDFs for more information on running VisualSearch on a PDF.