Programmatically search for a word in PDF file

In the program I am developing, I am opening up a PDF file from the application. Is there any way to search for a particular word in the PDF file and move to the page containing the first occurance of that word in the PDF file programmatically? I am using VC++ to develop the application.
Any guidance is appreciated and thanks in advance.

Thanks for your reply Leonard. I am not using any library now. Currently I am just opening up the PDF file in Adobe Acrobat Reader using ShellExecute() API passing the PDF filename. Now I want to open the PDF file in Adobe Acrobat Reader, and move to the page containig a particular text automatically. Is it possible through any command line arguments to AcroRd32.exe like, AcroRd32.exe <filename.pdf> search:<wordtosearch> OR I have to use any third party library to do this.

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