Advanced Search. Is it possible to search ( ?

I do not know an answer to bracket issue if it's not "---" Do you know the correct settings to make AND work? When I use it I get the results I'd expect from OR. Too many pages.
Woodsman

Before using boolean search operators it's important know that (Quote form the Community help):

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Boolean Query:
Uses the Boolean operators that you type with the search words into the What Word Or Phrase Would You Like To Search For box. Available only for searching multiple PDFs or PDF indexes.
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For further details look here:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Acrobat/9.0/Professional/WS047F7D61-E05E-4e82-98BA-F84B2E7A5974.w.php

If this doesn't help, maybe you found a bug?

CU
Tom

I'm working with legal documents, downloaded from the web. In the newer versions, search TEXT feature does not function properly; or rather it appears entire document is an image, and therefore search does not recognize text.

How do we search text in this instance?

Is there a filter for this?

Extremely frustrating to say the least. These documents are often 30 pages long.
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UPDATE: I figured it out - use the OCR feature. Not available on Adobe 9 "Reader".

Moderator: Please delete this question. Thx!

Well it is not professional that the organization of individual is doing this with legal documents. Many posters here have advised against that approach. It shows a certain attempt to make the discovery process more difficult. It might not be prohibited by the courts or legal organizations, but as you have found out, it only makes the task take longer. If this happens enough, you might want to pursue having the court, bar association, or state licensing agency make it a rule to provide search-able PDFs.

You are lucky you could OCR the PDF image.

I have downloaded a book that was digitized by Google. I can't search the text in the book, though Acrobat will pick up words in page 1 - the page that Google adds before the book proper starts.

The book is in English, though originally printed in 1822, it looks like Times New Roman, so I can't work out why text isn't recognizable.

Any ideas?

It's probably a scanned book, which had not been OCRed. Therefore it can't be searched.
You can try to OCR it yourself.