Search a PDF

The search feature in Preview is quite amazing. Use the standard keyboard shortcut for “Find,” Command F. Once you have found an instance on the page, press Command G to find the next instance. These are the same shortcuts you've probably used in Safari to find text on a web page or in TextEdit to find text in your document.

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