Click on the Start Menu and choose Control Panel.Here is how to tell if you have the problem: (This probably applies to 64-bit Vista and 64-bit XP too). Windows Search uses something called an iFilter to help it index files, and the PDF iFilter for 64-bit Windows is missing. Windows 7 and 8’s search capabilities are pretty good, but for some reason the 64-bit has a problem indexing PDF files. If you are having problems with PDF search and your System type says 32-bit, you can probably stop reading. There’ll be an entry for System type that will say 64 or 32 bits.You will see an entry for System Type which will give you the information that you need.Right-click on Computer, choose Properties.
How can you tell which kind of Windows you have? This cheap Acer laptop I am writing this on is 64-bit, for example. It used to be that only high-end computers were 64-bit, but that has changed. The 64-bit version of Windows handles large amounts of random access memory (RAM) more effectively than a 32-bit system. The terms 32-bit and 64-bit refer to the way a computer’s processor (also called a CPU), handles information. 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.
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