Saving PDF files so the content is searchable

Because one sees text does not mean that the text exist, it could be a image of text. This is like a photograph of a page form a book, it may look like a printed page but it is not. PDF can contain text, images, or images with hidden text. It sound like you are receiving scanned images without text of text documents and most MFC's create a scanned image without text. You will have to OCR recognize the images to have hidden searchable text to the PDF.

Okay, I get what you mean. However, the documents I receive are not OCR'd they are pdf.

Let me restate my question. Most of the pdf documents I get I can search for the word "Insurance." Granted when I search for insurance in the search field it is finding the "image" that corresponds to the "image" in the search field "insurance" and not the text.

Some of the documents I receive will not let me search for the word "Insurance" (or the image of that word.) Why is this? Is it because of the way they are saved as pdf or is there something I can turn on in the view mode to allow searching for "images" in the document.

Hank

If the quality of the PDF is good enough Acrobat can "Recognize Text Using OCR" to make a text searchable image. There is more information in Acrobat"s complete help.