If you need to find a specific phrase, word, or a combination of words in multiple PDF files, you usually search for it in each file one by one, which costs you a lot of time and effort. Without any doubt, Acrobat Reader is the most commonly used program for reading PDF files, and you can use it not only to read, but also to search text in multiple PDF files.
Download and install Acrobat Reader on your computer and launch it. In the search results, click the arrow to the left of the file name to see the sentences containing your search terms. For this purpose, however, you need to have a special plugin installed — PDF IFilter — which is used by Windows Search to index the contents of your files. You will have to download and install it from the Adobe IFilter download page. Please keep in mind that Windows will need some time to index the contents of your files.
It takes just a few steps to perform a search:. Download , install, and launch SeekFast. In the search results, click on the file name to open the PDF file, or click on the sentence to view a larger part of the text. UltraFinder is yet another tool developed by the creators of the very poplar text editor UltraEdit, which allows you to perform text searches in multiple PDFs. Download and install UltraFinder on your computer, and launch it.
UltraFinder has a lot of capabilities in terms of settings and filters; however, it has even more significant shortcomings, the main one being the extremely slow search process.
Our last but not least pick is the open source tool DocFetcher. Like Windows Search, DocFetcher also performs indexing of the files in the folder that you want to search. Download , install, and launch the tool. In the results window, click on each file name to view the text with the searched words highlighted. This was a brief summary of my experience in searching PDF files.
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Hi Bernie. If you will work with me I will be here to help until the issue is resolved. You can also use the Windows 10 Search which should search your files if they've been included in the Index. I hope this helps. Feel free to ask back any questions and keep me posted.
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