# Searching for Text String

You can search text of pages created by applications, text of image pages OCR-processed, and text of text annotations.
Procedure
1.
Select [Find] from the [Edit] pop-up menu or [Find] of the standard toolbar.
The [Find] dialog box appears.
2.
Select or enter [Text] to specify search conditions. Text cannot exceed 255 characters.
Note

- You cannot enter new lines and tabs.
- You can specify spaces.
- You can specify "A or B" by delimiting a character string with spaces such as "A B". To include a space in a character string, enclose the space with a double quotation mark (").
- If you want to search for a text string containing a double quotation mark, a back slash (\), or a space, precede the mark or character with a back slash.

3.
Click [Find Next].
Use this command to start search. If search ends, the character strings searched will be in selection state.

- Text of an application page will be in selection state in character string groups.
- Text of OCR result will be selected in lines or by pages. If no matching text was found, a message "The specified text does not exist." appears.

4.
Click [Find Next] or [Find Previous] to continue the search.
Click [Cancel] to stop the search.
Note
To search again under the same conditions specified for the previous search, select [Find Next] (or press the <F3> key on the keyboard) or [Find Previous] (or press <Shift> + <F3> keys on the keyboard) from the [Edit] pop-up menu.