How do I search for text inside a PDF?

can google search text in .pdf?

• Answer:

  1) "My articles are in PDF format. Can you still index my site? Yes. We can index PDF articles as long as they're searchable and as long as their size doesn't exceed 5MB. For larger documents and for scanned images that require OCR, we recommend Google Book Search. How can I tell if a PDF file has searchable text? Open the file in Adobe Acrobat Reader. Click 'Find' (look for the binocular icon), and confirm that you can search for and find several words on the page." Source and further information: http://scholar.google.ca/intl/en/scholar/publishers.html#tech1 2) "Q: Can Google index any type of PDF file? A: Generally we can index textual content (written in any language) from PDF files that use various kinds of character encodings, provided they’re not password protected or encrypted. If the text is embedded as images, we may process the images with OCR algorithms to extract the text. The general rule of the thumb is that if you can copy and paste the text from a PDF document into a standard text document, we should be able to index that text." Source and further information: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/09/pdfs-in-google-search-results.html Further information: http://www.google.com/help/faq_filetypes.html