Useful Commands Adobe Acrobat - Adobe Reader

Toolbar - Select Text

This command selects text on-screen. You can then execute copy and pasteoperations to transfer text bits to other applications.

Alternative: use the command Save As under the File menu of the Adobe Acrobat software to save the text from text-imagePDF files to a text file (in the Word, RTF, HTML or Text format).

Toolbar / Tools menu - Advanced Editing - TouchUp Text

File menu - Save As

This command allows you to save the text from text-imagePDF files to a text file (in the Word, RTF, HTML or Text format).

Alternative: select text on-screen with the Select Text tool on the toolbar of the Adobe Acrobat software and execute copy and pasteoperations.

Toolbar / Edit menu - Search

The Search command finds complete words or word parts in the current PDF document or in all PDF documents in a folder. Acrobat then looks for the word by sequentially reading every word on every page in the file(s).

The Search command also allows you to perform advanced and fast searching on a collection of indexed PDF documents.

Warning: index-based searching implies that the full-text index was created for a collection of PDF files (with the command Catalog of the Adobe Acrobat software). A full-text index is an alphabetized list of every word used in a document or a series of documents.

Advantage: index-based searching is much faster than sequential reading. Acrobat goes right to the word in the list rather than progressively reading through the documents.

How it works: refer to the documentation that came with your Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat software to learn how searching works.