The search function in Adobe Acrobat Reader allows you to locate words or phrases while working with PDF documents, even if it has been converted to PDF using character recognition technology (OCR).

To search a PDF on your Mac for a specific word or phrase, you can use the search function in the built-in Preview app.

Portable Document Format files, or PDFs, are easily presented and exchanged across softwares—even Word—so here’s how to convert a PDF into a Microsoft Word document. Converting a PDF into a ...