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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.
This isn't a perfect solution but I discovered a partial workaround if you have access to the source document and can print a new PDF. The search function is somehow font related, not all fonts are compatible. I created a 32 page drawing that had hundreds of signal names and had to get them reviewed via the PDF because the reviewers didn't have the drawing program, and the default font for my drawing program wasn't compatible with the Adobe search function in the PDF. I changed the font to Arial and everything worked. If you can change the font to a standard one that Adobe probably has compatibility with, you might have better luck with search. It's still not perfect and far from an ideal workaround, but it's something. The fact that we standardized on such a dumpster tier program like Acrobat is a bit insane in current year.