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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The Optical Character Recognition (OCR) feature in Google Drive allows users to automatically extract text from PDF files and save them in a Google Docs document. This can help to save time when ...

Like the GIF (that's Graphics Interchange Format), the PDF (Portable Document Format) has survived and flourished through the digital age. That's partly because of its versatility: It's the go-to ...