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Finding pdf documents through windows with selected words

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gbl

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Sep 6, 2001
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I need to know how to configure pdf documents so that they can be searched using the Windows Search function in Windows 2000 or XP ("Find" in older operating systems). I know from Thread223-925472 that there is a way to make scanned documents searchable within Adobe Acrobat. I can also use Adobe Acrobat to search for words in documents created by "printing" the document and selecting "Adobe PDF" as my printer.
But for both of these I am finding that when I do a search in a directory for files containing a certain word (Using the Windows 2000/XP Search command), the PDF documents are not included in the found documents. I know it can be done as I have searched words in PDF's created by others and found documents that do contain the searched words.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
 
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