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zoula
Copper Contributor
Nov 26, 2024

Search a comment in a PDF file

Hi,

I cannot search a comment in a PDF file using the file explorer in Win11. 

My Win10 machine is able to pull every PDF file.  I basically tried everything from the search settings with no success.  It can find regular text but if it's in a comment Win11 will not find it but Win10 will

 

I really need to go trough lots of PDF,  and was able to do it just fine on my Win10 machine. 

Thank you

zoula

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  • Kodyon's avatar
    Kodyon
    Iron Contributor
    Aug 15, 2025

    Using the Edge browser, open the PDF and press Ctrl+F to search for comments, or use PowerShell to call Select-String -Path “*.pdf” -Pattern “comment keyword” to perform a batch search.

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