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.

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).

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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Mar. 2014 and the video tutorial for this article published Dec. 2018; while this program might look a little different, the steps shown in this ...

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 Microsoft ...

This post will show you how to count words in PDF. We have covered some free and simple PDF word counter tools. While there are some very good PDF reader tools available to use, they don’t help to ...