Fastest method for searching within a PDF file?

I have created a PDF document that holds all document reports for the last 10 years. It is currently 30,000 pages. As time goes on, incoming reports append to this PDF. This has proven to be an excellent way of holding and retrieving information, allowing me to pull up reports using specific search criteria.
The question I pose is this. Is there any faster way to search this mammoth document than the adobe search feature? The adobe search feature has great functionality, without a doubt. And even with 30,000 pages I can search the entire document in about 5 minutes or so, however in this day and age, 5 minutes can be a lifetime, especially to a client, lawyer, doctor, etc...
Does anyone know of a way of improving Adobe's search function to expedite it, or know of any existing third party programs that are able to do this (free or for cost)?
I appreciate your time, love the community, and await your response.
Have a great day.

Hi,
You can try going to finder, hitting CMD + F and below search this mac, you should see kind. You can try switching that contents and the second option to documents.
Hope this helps,
Zevie

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