Search function of Preview, Adobe Reader and other don't work for pdf files

[bkemanew]

hi,

I am on macbook m2 pro with Ventura 13.5.2.

I have a problem with search words or quotations in pdf files. Preview search function does not work at all. Also I installed Adobe Acrobat Reader and Pdf gear to see if they would work but no. None of the search functions work.

Can you recommend anything?

Thanks

 

[HDFan]

Are the PDF files searchable?

How to make PDF searchable: Make PDF text searchable | Adobe Acrobat

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[jamietshaw]

Is the text actually stored as text? It might be that your PDF is just a load of *images* of text, not the text itself, and so you'd need some kind of text recognition software to read it.