Ennyd walkthrough
Find text inside a PDF
Open a historical scan and use literal Find to locate a word in its existing text layer.
Watch the workflow
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Transcript: what happens in this video
- The Serpent Mound PDF opens in Ennyd’s document viewer.
- Command-F opens Find. Entering serpent moves to the title page and highlights SERPENT.
- The viewer displays Match found beside the query while retaining the scanned page.
What this video shows
- Open the local PDF scan.
- Use Command-F within the PDF viewer.
- Type serpent as a literal query.
- Inspect the highlighted word on the scanned page.
Result
The query serpent reports Match found and highlights SERPENT on the scanned title page.
Before you start
- A PDF with an existing searchable text layer.
How it works
- PDF Find searches existing text in the document.