Find text

You can search a Microsoft Office Document Imaging document for specific text. Before you can find text, Document Imaging must perform optical character recognition (OCR) on the scanned document.

Find text

1. On the Edit menu, click Find.
2. In the Find box, type the text you want to look for.
3. Press ENTER.

If the text is found, it is highlighted in the page pane.

Tip

If you are accustomed to performing searches on the World Wide Web, where it is often better to use more keywords to narrow a search, be aware that finding text using Office Document Imaging is usually more effective when you use fewer keywords, or even fragments of words.

Find the next or previous occurrence of text

1. On the Edit menu, click Find.

2. In the Find dialog box, type the text you want to look for.

3. Click the Next or Previous button.

Reuse a previous search

1. On the Edit menu, click Find, and then click the arrow to the right of the Find box.
2. In the list, select the text you want to find.

   The list contains strings of text you have searched for during the current session.

3. Press ENTER.

Notes

• The Find command is case-insensitive, treating uppercase and lowercase characters the same.
• Leading spaces, trailing spaces, and accent marks are ignored.
• Common OCR errors are ignored. For example, the letter combination "rn" is often incorrectly recognized as "m," so the Find command will locate both. However, this can occasionally cause false matches.