The way I make PDFs from text is searchable, at least on my 'puter. Here's what I did to check, just now. On this very thread, I went up to file, print, and then changed my printer to Adobe PDF, then printed (make sure you indicate where you want it saved because if you don't, like anything, you won't be able to find it). Name it, too, unless you like the name it makes for itself. When you print to the Adobe PDF printer, you're not really printing, you're creating a PDF. Then, if it doesn't open all by itself, which mine did, go to it, open it, and see if you can search it. This is what I did just now with this thread to check it. And it worked perfectly. And it took seconds.
That is what I did. Thank for the memories!! So how do I get Adobe as a printer option? Any input? It is not there now.