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Search function does not work.
When pressing ctrl+F, the search option appears but does not find anything. Even when I'm staring right at the word or text I typed in the search box. How can a basic function like this be broken and still get released? This is a complete waste of time and productivity for anyone that relies on this function to search large documents. Please fix this or give us the option to roll back to a version that actually works.
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This is still a problem in 2025, tried to search a PDF of a schematic that has full text already in there and it's not a picture that needs OCR or anything so it should find it, this document even has hyperlinks to follow the connections across pages but the mind-numbingly stupid search function tells me there is only one result. There is a literal hyperlink in the document to the second location, fix your stuff. Also make a rule when that text with underscores can't have the underscore overlap with a line so it's invisible. That may be more on the printer side but my company is paying Adobe thousands of dollars a month for collective Acrobat Pro licenses and they can't even make their search function work. This is embarrassing.
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Max
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Using (e.g.) Version 2024.002.20759 (64 bit), open the attached PDF document (just a test document), press Ctrl+F and type "QR-code" (without quotation marks). This shows a "No results found - Try another search item" box under the search window. The document very obviously contains the term "QR-code" twice, so it is simply wrong to suggest that no results exist.
However, if you press the enter key now, the search actually does (correctly) find two results and lets you navigate through them.
Quite clearly, the result suggestions are only indexed on whole words or something. But it is simply not excusable to have "no results found" displayed on screen when the program actually means "press enter to check if there are any results, we don't have any indexed ones available". (Side note: Indexing only on words and not on any substrings is weak. What year are we in again?)
If there are no immediate results (but search has not been performed exhaustively), there should just be nothing displayed. I can't stress this enough: It is critical that users don't see the words "no results" after typing a search term when that search term actually _does_ exist in the document.
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brian g commented
Adobe Reader's search function still does not work. As others have said, search is such as basic function. And everywhere I turn for help, Adobe has the audacity to push its products instead of fixing this basic flaw. They want us to fork over our money for what? More Adobe software that does not work?
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Gabriel Alcantara commented
It's unbelievable that the search function doesn't work. Such a basic feature.. Because of that, I no longer use Adobe's PDF reader.
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Please fix!!!
