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If the PDF was created from an IMAGE then although it may look like text it is stored as a graphic. Unless you first put it through OCR you can’t expect a search to be able to index it.

stuck

If I can add to Stuck’s comments. We went paperless (well sort of) a couple years ago and most of our documents are in pdf format. We have found that if we do not put a document through the ocr process, when scanned or converted to pdf, it saves a lot of time and space as it is a much smaller file. Anyway, my point is that a lot of pdf documents may not be readable, and therefore as Stuck indicated, search will not read them. You can test the document in question by opening it, then searching for a word using your pdf readers find function. If it cannot find words, then neither will Microsoft’s search.

Dave