Keywords in scanned Acrobat documents

I have a number of scanned US Census documents 1800s-1900s 'printed' to PDF files. I assigned keywords to them and now would like to search a folder for all PDFs that contain a keyword, like 'Texas' or 'Samuel'. How can this be doen?

Provided the keywords where entered in the respective PDF files as values for the "Keywords" entry on the Description tab of a PDF's Document Properties you can use Acrobat Pro to build a Catalog Index.
The index will 'hold' the values for meta data provided to the PDF files.
Make a discrete PDF from which advance search is launched.
In this PDF's Advanced tab of Document Properties "mount" the Search Index (the PDX file) by using the Browse button to locate the PDX file.
Close the dialog and Save the PDF.
Open this PDF. Start advanced search. Advanced Search can be configured to look for values contained in Keywords.
Be well...

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