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title: "How do you make a PDF searchable in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC?"  
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# How do you make a PDF searchable in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC?

How do you make a PDF searchable in Adobe [Acrobat Reader](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/94914/how-do-i-edit-adobe-acrobat-reader-dc) DC?

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## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

**Steps to make a [PDF](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/95093/how-do-you-convert-from-pdf-to-word-without-losing-formatting) searchable in Adobe Acrobat [Reader DC](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/94907/how-can-i-fix-the-issue-of-random-pages-turning-blank-on-a-pdf-file-on-adobe-reader-dc):**

- To make a **PDF searchable** in Adobe Acrobat Professional or Standard, perform these steps:
- **Select Tools** > Text Recognition > In This File from the drop-down menu.
- The Recognize Text window appears. Click OK after selecting All Pages.
- The text recognition process will be carried out one page at a time. Please keep in mind that if your document is quite long, the procedure may take several minutes to complete.
- Select Tools > Text Recognition > In Numerous Files to enable text-searchability in multiple documents at the same time.
- The Recognize Text dialogue box appears, allowing you to add the files or folders of documents that you want to text-search.
- After you've uploaded all of the files or folders, click OK to begin the text-recognition process. Text-recognition processing can take a lengthy time if many files or directories are selected.
- Once all of the pages in all of the documents have been processed, repeat the search to ensure that each document is now text-searchable.

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