Corporate Edition 4 Tutorials

Search a PDF Document

Use PDF Complete Software to search for text within a PDF file. Please note: not all PDF files contain searchable text. If the text in the PDF was originally saved as an image, it will not be searchable.

1. Open a PDF document you would like to search.
2. Click the  icon in the left navigation bar.
   
   -OR- In the main menu bar, go to Edit, and select Find…
   -OR- Right-click on the document pane, and select Find from the right-click menu.
   
   The search options will expand in the left navigation bar:
   
    
3. Enter the word or phrase you would like to search for
4. Select from the Search Options checkboxes provided, then click Search.