Can't search PDF's in iBooks and Adobe Reader

[RadekSkylark]

#1
Hello everyone!

A few days ago I made a decision to try out an Apple product - I bought a 2018 iPad with 32gb of memory. The main reason I wanted a tablet is for reading some books as well as having some options for doing multimedia activities when I'm out of my house.

Anyway, the problem I encountered is that after uploading some PDF books to my iPad from my PC I can't search them in either iBooks app, nor Adobe Reader (free version), although they're searchable on my PC.

For example, in iBooks app, I can actually highlight all words in those files, but when I do a search it doesn't do (return) anything. In contrast, when I share those PDF's to Adobe Reader I cannot highlight the words for copying, for example (although when I want to make write a comment or highlight text in yellow it is possible to select exact words and letters).

My question is - what is the problem and what can I do to solve it?

Thanks!

 

[mogelijk]

Unfortunately, I don't use iBooks for PDFs, in fact I don't use PDFs often, so don't have any good ideas. Hopefully someone here might have some better ideas for you.

 

[Ledsteplin]

I'm not sure what your issue is. Do you add the pdf to iBooks? Then can't search something? Not sure I follow. What are you searching? A pdf? Something in a pdf?
When you highlight a word, do you have the black bar with "look up" on it? If so, have you added a dictionary to your iPad?
If you don't see anything after tapping "look up", look at the bottom or scroll down. It should say "manage dictionaries". Tap that and choose a dictionary.

 

[RadekSkylark]

Hello.

Just wanted to update everyone - app called "PDF Max" solved this issue the best - I can search for words in my PDFs in that app, as well as highlight text and more. The best thing is that this all comes free.

Cheers