Windows Desktop Search is an indexing and searching utility from Microsoft that helps you locate documents, spreadsheets, presentations, email items, contacts, attachments on your computer or connected network.

Access it by pressing the Windows logo key + F.

The program's PDF indexing filter becomes available for Windows Desktop Search, letting you index and search your PDF files, including image-only PDF files.

• By installation default, PDF iFilter is not enabled, but you can install it with a Custom installation. Refer to the Getting Started Guide for details.
• To enable Windows Desktop Search after installation, go to File > Options > General > Integrations and under "Windows Desktop Search Integration", click Enable.
• To run Windows Desktop Search on PDF pages without a text layer, select the "OCR pages that do not contain text" check box.

Windows Desktop Search displays a search field with the ability to set search criteria and filters.

For more guidance, consult Windows Help.