Search And Highlight In Adobe Acrobat Pro Dc
Nadia Grubb
I highlight important sections of my documents with the Highlight Text tool. I'd like to be able to search these documents for highlighted text, so that I can quickly locate what I had previously identified as important. I am having to scroll through lengthy documents page-by-page to find my highlighting. It's far too time-consuming to add a searchable annotation next to each important passage in a document. I may highlight ten different sentences on several different pages in a lengthy document. In MS Word, I can quickly search for highlighting by clicking on Find --> Format --> Highlight. Is there any way of doing this in Acrobat 8 Pro?
In old versions of Adobe Acrobat reader if you did a search for a term or a word, all instances of that term/word were highlighted at the same time. IN the version that I unfortunately upgraded to, if you search for a term you only see one instance of it until you move forward. I want to be able to see all instances of a word at the same time - how do I do this?
I found one tricky way to open that. First ctrl+F, type in "/", don't do any thing and straight delete the "/" you typed in, and then type in the word you want to search, and then press ENTER. This method will highlight all the words you want to search in the pdf. It works for me.
I can confirm that I'm looking at a page where all the matched results to the search are highlighted, and they continue to other pages. This is definitely functionality of Reader but it seems no one knows how to reporduce consistently.
I know this was a while back, but I know the foolproof method for making this work. Open the find window, and start typing something. Then backspace and retype, just invent any kind of edit to the word you are typing, and every instance of that search word or phrase will magically appear on each page. This is an extremely valuable tool!
Thank you so much for this! My experience with Adobe Acrobat Reader has always been that upon entering a term to Find, all instances of that term will be highlighted. That recently stopped working. Maybe it has something to do with the upgrade to 2023.003.20269? At any rate, it stopped working and I couldn't get it back, but this hack works like a charm.
For me the issue is primarily when there is only 1 search result on a page, if there are multiple search results on the same page it will highlight the 2nd one, and then I can hit the reverse search button and it'll find the previous search result on that page and highlight it as well.
It is very annoying, I hope there is a fix/patch/update soon.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH! This is driving me NUTS! I use the function constantly on long documents and Adobe not highlighting the search results is costing me tons of time and $$$. I am really disgusted that this basic function is broken. In fact, I am furious. Fix it already, damn it.
It is unusual to get bugs fixed that quickly. If they tell you about a week, then be happy that is as long as it takes. Flooding tech support with phone calls will not help it go faster. The update must go through quality insurance. While the bug did get through Adobe's bug checking process, it may have been rushed to avoid security issues. Relax, it will get done. If you want to express its importance, then it is much easier and more helpful to use the Adobe Bug Reporting form:
Thank you "Michael the Adobe apologist" for letting me know what I shouldn't or should be happy about. Something as big as that error, with as many people having it, should have certainly been caught, or at least Adobe should have let us know that the feature isn't fully implemented yet so caution when updating your Adobe Acrobat version. I've reported it via the bug report form but I am pretty darn positive Adobe reads these forums for feedback, and Adobe won't understand the level of frustration amongst their uses unless they do.
In my industry I deal with 1,200-1,500 page .pdf documents where I need to quickly reference certain keywords, and searching with my eyes down an entire page is not very conducive to getting business done.
I'm having the same problem as many others with the search highlighting problem in Acrobat Standard (not Reader) version 9.4.5. I also just confirmed that the same problem exists in Reader version 9.4.5. Your suggestion to upgrade to Reader version 10 might fix the problem with Reader 9.4.5, but it appears that those of us posting the problem aren't using Acrobat Reader, we're using Acrobat Standard.
With the range of software products currently available, it's easy enough to confuse one for another, especially wth the popularity of Acrobat Reader. I think it's safe to say that Acrobat Reader is the 'standard reader' for PDF documents. The idea that Acrobat Reader is the standard for PDF documents is a point of confusion, because now we have to decide if the standard reader is Acrobat Standard or Acrobat Reader. Maybe Adobe could have chosen a better name for Acrobat Standard, something like Acrobat Writer, or Acrobat Creator. Anyway...
I'm not criticizing your suggestion, or flaming you for contributing an idea that may be helpful for some, but not necessarily for others. I use Acrobat Standard because Acrobat Reader is not capable of doing what I need to do. My particular situation requires the ability to search a document (not necessarily a PDF document) for a word or words, highlight them, comment the document, and save the commented document in PDF format. I may also need to combine several documents into a single PDF document for ease of Emailing them to someone. It may be a poor comparison on my part, but Acrobat Standard is like a TV boradcast station in that it creates content to be viewed elsewhere, and Acrobat Reader is like the TV set, in that it is intended to view the content created at the TV broadcast station.
I'm getting sick of hearing "This has been identified as a bug by our Engineering team. They are hard a work adding a fix to be included in the next update. There is no time frame for this patch to be released."
Highlighting of search terms was working fine until we ugraded from Adobe Standard 9.4.4 to version 9.4.5. It is not only annoying to not have this working, it is very time consuming as well. I have actually had to install FoxIt reader on my system so that I can get functional again.
Under "Preferences -> Search" there is an option called "Enable Search Highlights From External Highlight Server". It was disabled when I first opened these settings, so I tried enabling it and now highlighting of search terms seems to be workinga little more consistently for me (well actually working at all versus not working at all), although it is still skipping some terms when I click the arrow to go to the next match. I've also noticed that when it does skip highlighting a match, if I then click to go to the next match and then click to go back to the previous match, it then hightlights the previously unhighlighted match.
Also, does anyone know what "Enable Search Highlights From External Highlight Server" this setting is for? It is kind of self explanatory, but what is an "External Highlight Server" in relation to Adobe PDF applications?
Dealing with large PDF files may be a fuss sometimes, especially if you have a PDF file with hundreds of pages and you need to search for some specific content. So, if you are looking for how to find highlighted text in PDF, this article contains a step-by-step tutorial for you.
To search for highlighted text in PDF, all you need is Wondershare PDFelement - PDF Editor , which can not only highlight text in PDF, but also let you quickly find highlighted text. If you need it, you can extract the highlight text with PDFelement, too.
To search the highlighted text, you need to highlight the text first, so you'll be able to search it later. To do so, click "Comment" and then the "Highlight" icon. The cursor will automatically be changed, so now, you can select any text to highlight it.
To search for the highlighted text, again click on "Comment" and then the "Comment" icon in the left vertical toolbar. Once you click on it, all the highlighted text will appear in another bar next to the vertical toolbar. Now, you can select anyone from the list to check it. If there are too many highlighted text, you can type in the search bar to quickly locate the highlighted text that you need.
PDFelement is advanced but user-friendly software that is used to create and edit PDF files. But unlike other PDF tools available, it has a world inside it. It allows you to perform lots of advanced and difficult tasks within some clicks. It is a valuable addition to any business, and it can be used for different purposes. Some of the most important features are given below.
Now, you can select any of the highlighted text, right-click on it, and you'll be able to do whatever you want to do with this text. This is how you find and select the highlighted text in PDF using Adobe Acrobat Reader. By doing the same method, you can also add comments to your PDF files in Acrobat Reader.
With Acrobat and the Acrobat SDK, you can use the Search plug-in to locate an occurrence of a word in document content, metadata, attachments or other objects. You can use the Catalog plug-in to create a full-text index of a PDF document or document collection. This chapter summarizes these plug-ins.
Initiate a search with options. You can pass query expressions and search settings (for example, whole words only, word stemming, case sensitive, and so forth) to the Acrobat search plug-in and initiate the search. Search results will be presented to the user.
You can use the Acrobat SDK to create a full-text index of a set of PDF documents. A full-text index is a searchable database of all the text in the documents. After building an index, you can use search the entire library quickly. You can build and manipulate indexes from a plug-in, through JavaScript, or from an external application using IAC (DDE or Apple events) calls.
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