{"id":8077,"date":"2012-12-31T05:49:26","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T05:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/?p=8077"},"modified":"2012-12-31T05:51:58","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T05:51:58","slug":"find-text-in-a-pdf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/find-text-in-a-pdf\/affordablewebsitestips\/tutorials","title":{"rendered":"Find text in a PDF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes while searching online for information it will be in a PDF file. Unfortunately, some PDFs are huge and the search engines or Google can't search through PDF pages like it can web pages.<\/p>\n<h3>How to find text in a PDF<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Open the PDF file you want to search.<\/li>\n<li>Hold down the 'Ctrl' key and press the 'f' key.<\/li>\n<li>Notice a search field labeled 'Find' appears in the top right corner of the PDF window.\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/PDF_find_text.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8083\" title=\"PDF_find_text\" src=\"http:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/PDF_find_text.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"111\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Type the word(s) you want to search for in the 'Find' field and click the 'Next' button.<\/li>\n<li>If there are multiple instances of the word you are searching for, you can click the 'Previous' and 'Next' buttons to cycle through them in the PDF document.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Pressing the (Ctrl-f) keys isn't just a good way to find text in a PDF, it can also be used to find text in most windows based document based programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes while searching online for information it will be in a PDF file. Unfortunately, some PDFs are huge and the search engines or Google can&#8217;t search through PDF pages like it can web pages. How to find text in a PDF Open the PDF file you want to search. Hold down the &#8216;Ctrl&#8217; key and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143,4],"tags":[348],"class_list":["post-8077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet-tips","category-tutorials","tag-pdf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8077"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8086,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8077\/revisions\/8086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}