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Can only search in first of appended documents

I wanted to print a number of bank statements using Scansoft PDF Create so I could search for specific expenditures over a number of years. The statements were PDFs. I opened each and printed it appending each statement to the document. However when I went to search for e.g. Phone Invoice, it would only search the first statement and would not continue through the 80 pages or so. Can anyone suggest a means of appending saved docs so that the whole completed PDF is searchable.
Thanks,
Brian


Brian Christensen


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Being an Adobe hosted user site for Acrobat Answers it'd be rather inappropriate to get into discussions about third-party applications. Scansoft support would be an appropriate venue for questions about that application.
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Regardless of the PDF processor used (Acrobat, Adobe Reader, others) a scanner's output is an image of text not text itself. So, nothing for a "find" or "search" to grab.
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Use Acrobat to develop an OCR output for the scanned image of text in a PDF. This will provide something for Acrobat's / Adobe Reader's find / search to grab.
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By David Austin   

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