How to Make a PDF Searchable. Because you can view PDF files on a variety of computers with different settings and software, they are useful for sharing documents with clients, employees and other ...

Adobe Acrobat Pro’s optical character recognition feature converts scanned documents into editable PDFs. Just click on the Edit PDF tool to create a fully editable copy with searchable text.

Drive’s native features enable you to save just about any content as a PDF file. Even better, the text of any PDF saved in your Drive account becomes searchable thanks to Google’s Optical ...