Using Adobe Acrobat’s Search Feature
You may be familiar with Acrobat’s find feature that allows you to search for a particular word in a PDF file. Acrobat also has a more powerful search feature that can look through multiple PDF files at once and apply advanced search options. To access Acrobat’s search:
- Open Acrobat and go to Edit > Search
- Type in a search word.
- For the search location choose ‘All PDF Documents in’ and then choose whatever folder or directory you want to look in.
- If you click on Use Advanced Search Options at the bottom, Acrobat will let you add additional search criteria. For this example we’ll skip the additional options.
- Click search and view your results. In the results section you’ll see all PDF files that contain your search word.
- If you click on the plus sign next to any search result it will show you the search word in context.
- Clicking on a search word will open the corresponding PDF file and highlight your search word.
