Revu's search tool will let you find what in your documents?

• A. A visual symbol in PDF content
• B. Text in PDF content
• C. Metadata in PDF content
• D. Images in PDF content

Answer: (B)

The search tool looks for text in PDF content. PDFs store readable characters in a text layer or within the content streams as text, and the search scans that text to find the words or phrases you type. It won’t locate visual symbols or images as searchable text, and it doesn’t search metadata unless that metadata is stored as searchable text. If a document is just scanned images with no text layer, there’s nothing to match until you run OCR to create a searchable text layer from the images. So you’re locating actual words and phrases in the document, not graphical elements, unless OCR has been applied.