[Ham-Computers] Adobe Reader 9.2

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Gene,

I'm not using 9.x but unless its search engine tries to do OCR on the fly, 
the document must be OCR'd first.  If the text was merely imported into the 
PDF from some other image format or if it was scanned direct to PDF, 
everything in it is still considered an image.  Images are not text and are 
therefore not searchable.

In the Reader (Adobe Reader, not Acrobat) click the Document tab and look 
for something similar to "Accessibility Quick Check".  Run it (with the 
manual open in the reader). If it tells you something like the file may be a 
scanned image, it hasn't been converted for searching.  Open the Help for your 
version of Acrobat (not Reader) and search for something like "Converting 
image-only scanned pages to searchable text".  I actually got to it (Acrobat 7) 
by searching Help for "capture an image".  

In a message dated 1/2/2010 1:10:10 PM Central Standard Time, 
erastber at tampabay.rr.com writes: 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> Here is what I am doing:
> 
> I open a PDF doc and go to some page or another, click <ctrl> + F and the 
> "find" box pops up.
> I enter a phrase/word, etc. that I know is in the doc but it keeps telling 
> 
> me "Not Found".
> I tried entering the 'path' and still NG.
> 
> This is a PDF file of the Globe Scout 680 that was downloaded from BAMA. . 
> . 

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