You can search a Microsoft Office Document Imaging document for
specific text. Before you can find text,
optical character recognition (OCR) must be run on the
scanned document. To find text in an annotation, the annotation must be made a permanent part of the document, and OCR must be run again on the document.
Find text- On the Edit menu, click Find.
- In the Find box, type the text you want to look for.
- To change search options, click Options, select the options you want, and then click OK.
- Click Next.
If the text is found, it is highlighted in the page pane.
To find the next or previous occurrence of a word, click Next or Previous.
If you are accustomed to performing searches on the World Wide Web, where it is often better to use more keywords to narrow a search, be aware that finding text using Office Document Imaging is usually more effective when you use fewer keywords, or even fragments of words.
- On the Edit menu, click Find, and then click the arrow to the right of the Find box.
- In the list, select the text you want to find.
The list contains strings of text you have searched for during the current session.
- Press ENTER.
Notes
- The Find command is case-insensitive, treating uppercase and lowercase characters the same.
- By default, leading spaces and trailing spaces are ignored. To change this, click the Options button in the Find dialog box. Under Ignore, clear the Whitespace characters check box.
- Common OCR errors are ignored. For example, the letter combination "rn" is often incorrectly recognized as "m," so the Find command will locate both. However, this can occasionally cause false matches.