Revu Tutorial: Search
Revu includes powerful search capabilities to help you locate text keywords and graphical symbols in
multi-paged PDF files, as well as the ability to search through multiple PDF files at once. You can also
convert scanned PDFs to text-searchable documents (eXtreme only), and even add helpful functionality to
these search results.
To begin, searching, click the Tab Access icon
and select Search
.
OR
Click Edit on the Command bar and select Search
.
OR
Enter Ctrl+F or Alt+1.
Conducting a Text Search
Make sure the radio button next to Text is selected and type your desired keyword(s) into the text field.
Then, select an option in the Search In dropdown menu to search through Current Document, Current
Page, All Open Documents, Recents, or Folder and click Search.
Note: When searching a local or networked folder, you can check the option to include Sub-Folders.
Set Search Options
The Options menu lets you refine your search criteria even further. Select Search Pages, Search
Filenames, Search File Properties, Search Form Fields, Search Markups, Case Sensitive and/or Whole
Words Only.
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View Search Results
Your search results will be listed below a bar that displays the document name. Each result includes a
hyperlink that, when clicked, will take you to its exact location on the PDF.
Note: Scanned PDF files are images that do not contain any text, so they are not text-searchable. PDF
files text that was converted as Vector graphics, and not font data, are not text-searchable either. See the
OCR section of this guide for details on how to make these documents searchable.
Apply Markups and Replace Text
The Search tab allows you to apply markups to search results
and/or replace text. Start by selecting the desired search results,
using your cursor to check/uncheck an individual search result.
You can also use the
Check All or
Uncheck All buttons
in the Search tab. Once you’ve selected the desired search
results, click the
options:
icon and choose one of the following markup
To replace the selected text search results, click
Replace Checked from the search tab. When the Search
and Replace dialog appears, type your desired
replacement text into the Replace With field. If you would
like a different font for your replacement text, select Use in
the Font section and choose any system font (original font
must not have editable permissions). You can bypass this
option by simply selecting Skip.
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VisualSearchTM
You can also search for specific
symbols in a PDF. In the Search
tab, choose the Visual option and
then click the Get Rectangle
button. Click and drag your cursor
over the object you would like to
search for and a preview will
display in the box next to the Get
Rectangle button. Choose the
applicable option in the Search In
dropdown menu and click Search.
Similar to Text search,
VisualSearch will display a list of
results, each of which can be
checked/unchecked for special
functions such as Highlight and
Hyperlink.
VisualSearch Options
Sensitivity: Determines how closely the images need to match to be considered a valid result. Adjust the
slider to set a lower or higher sensitivity. Lowering the sensitivity will allow for matches that have minor
differences, like an adjacent line, but may also result in false positives.
In the example to the right, the ellipse in the second result
touches the vertical line. A search with High Sensitivity will not
consider this a match, but Low Sensitivity will consider this a
match. You may need to lower the sensitivity if you are working
on a PDF created from a scan due to stray pixels or background
noise in the PDF.
Search Multiple Rotations:Select this option to include symbols that may be a match but are rotated at
45o, 90o,135o, 180o, 225o rotations.
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Filter by Color: This option
enables the Refine Colors
button. The search will filter out
colors that are not part of the
selection (or in the selected
range in the histogram).
Filter by Size: On a vector
PDF, this option will filter out
vector objects that extend out of
the selection rectangle.
Search for Fine Detail: This
option enables a refined search
on the segments that may exist
inside the search area symbol.
The following feature is only available in Bluebeam Revu eXtreme™:
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
OCR converts scanned text to searchable text. In other
words, if you are working with PDFs scanned from faxed
or handwritten documents, OCR can help make the
textual content within those documents text-searchable.
To use OCR, go to Document in the Command Bar and
select OCR, or use the shortcut Ctrl + Shift + O. When
the OCR dialog appears, you can change the settings or
go ahead and press OK. Once complete, you can
conduct Text searches and use advanced options like
applying a hyperlink or markup.
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