How to make pdf's searchable for all words for multiple documents?

I scan hundreds of documents every week at work. These documents are mostly field invoices for industrial work. I have been saving them with the most important/most searched information as the file name so I can search that information from anywhere in my computer and easily find it. As the work we are doing and our customers are becoming more complex I am needing to search for documents by keywords that just would not be efficient to include all into the file name. I have tried OCR to no avail. After doing OCR on many many files, I will try to search for a word that is right in front of me and it says zero found. My ideal: to be able to search my computer from my desktop for a keyword (like I can with word or excel dosuments), and have all pdf's containing that keyword to populate. I have been working on this for far too long and am not finding the solution, so before I set out to find a new program instead of Adobe I'm hoping there is something out there I just don't know about yet. I have googled this issue til my fingertips are bruised and it always brings me back to: Use OCR! Not only hasn't  it found any pdf using keywords (unless I have that specific document open), half of my files it gives me an error message stating those files can not be rendered OCR. The whole point of what I'm trying to do is to ensure I find EVERY SINGLE document that would have the keyword.
Please help! Thank you!!

So, park the PDFs that hold those scanner output images of text.
Now, using Acrobat Pro  create an Action to OCR these PDF files and save.
Having been OCR'd these PDFs can have a Catalog index of the collection (built with Acrobat Pro).
Using the Catalog index you can use advanced search (the includes Boolean search).
Be well...

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