I’ll let Microsoft describe the difference: There are basically two types of Windows: 32-bit and 64-bit. Not having a Windows machine at the time I was flying blind, but we went back and forth and eventually he figured out what the issue was: an iFilter (but I am getting ahead of myself here). It would only find it if he typed in the name of a file, which pretty much defeats the purpose of Optical Character Recognition. Matt had a problem: He was scanning all these OCR’ed PDFs, but Windows Search was not finding them when he typed a keyword in the document. It is fairly common for DocumentSnap readers to write in with questions/problems, but it is pretty handy when a reader writes in with both the problem and the solution, which is exactly what superstar DocumentSnap reader Matt did recently. That is, unless you are running the 64-bit version of Windows 7 or Windows 8. You don’t need to have a third party tool to search the contents of a searchable PDF – the OS will do it for you.
One of the best things about modern operating systems like Mac OS X and Windows 7 and 8 is that search, particularly PDF search, is built right in.
