Can search engines crawl content in PDF files?

[Dynapro]

Can search engines crawl content in PDF files?

[dennis123]

In general, yes, Google does crawl PDFs unless they are password protected or encrypted. If the text is embedded as images, Google may process those images to extract the text. The general rule is that if you can copy \ paste text from a PDF document, Google should be able to search pdf content and index the content.

[jayam]

PDFs can be crawled as though they are web pages by search engines. ... Google can still index them, but they don't give the search engine everything it desires when analyzing and ranking pages. The same goes for Word or Excel documents.

[jayammrg]

In general, yes, Google does crawl PDFs unless they are password protected or encrypted. If the text is embedded as images, Google may process those images to extract the text. The general rule is that if you can copy \ paste text from a PDF document, Google should be able to search pdf content and index the content.

[chandrao7]

Choose Edit > Find (Ctrl/Command+F).
Type the text you want to search for in the text box on the Find toolbar.
To replace text, click Replace With to expand the toolbar, then type the replacement text in the Replace With text box.

[swaroop97]

PDFs can be crawled as though they are web pages by search engines. ... Google can still index them, but they don't give the search engine everything it desires when analyzing and ranking pages. The same goes for Word or Excel documents.