with the text available for searching, copying, and even editing in the proper app. That “copying” part can lead to oceans of trouble when people try to remove details from a PDF before ...

Luckily, most tools also give you the ability to search a PDF for a word or phrase. This is especially helpful if the PDF you're looking at is especially wordy. On a Mac, you can open a PDF in ...

There's nothing worse than opening a PDF and realizing you can't use the search function or even highlight text. This typically happens when a PDF was created by scanning a paper document—it's ...

SEE: IT pro's guide to the evolution and impact of 5G technology (free PDF) 9to5Google notes Lens OCR works particularly well on screenshots, but also for text in photos. The text search ...

Now, however, you can search for text within DOC, PDF, PPT, and other files and Gmail will bring them up in your search results. We tested it with a few PDF and DOC files, and it worked pretty well.

As the developers explain: Typically, text in PDF documents is not directly editable. Instead, it's stored as vector shapes to keep documents looking consistent across various platforms and apps.