If I have 10 text documents in a folder I can do a word search for all ten at once by searching doing a folder search. If I know that one doc has the word Camaro in it I can search all at once.
I think you are saying that you could do the same with ten PDF docs in a folder...... But only when you used Windows 7....not Windows 10.
I DO KNOW that if a pdf is composed from images that have text in them.....That you cannot do a word search
Yep. The PDFs that I’m using are part number catalogs (I’ve got about 50 of them). When I’d put the part number into the search window of the Win7 folder, every manual with that part number would pop up in the search. I’d open up the manual that popped up, search on the part number inside, and I’d have my info. The whole thing took seconds. With the very same manuals, Win10 won’t do that, even when I get into the settings and tell it to search file contents. Win10 will only do it with Word, Excel, and other Microsoft products, it has a built-in bias now. What a crock.
When I use the ctrl-shift-F search in Adobe (because my company stupidly only allows that to be used), it takes 1-2 minutes to search the same parts catalogs. I don’t know why it’s so slow.
In Win7, the process was fast and easy. In Win10, it’s always a problem.