Search text in a large PDF

I have a large PDF... maybe about 1200 pages. When I search for a specific word, even one that I KNOW is in the document, Preview says "No results found." What is going on? This is a regular PDF, not a scanned image. Do I have to convert it to a different PDF format? I really could use some help. Thank you!

Having said all this, I've just found a PDF where neither Preview nor Acrobat will find text that's in the document. This particular document was downloaded from the Web, so I have no idea how it was generated - just that there are PDF's that neither Acrobat nor Preview will search ...
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My "claim"? Actually I've made no "claim" such as you've mentioned.
Simply stated your OP has foundational premises that presume as factual what is not.
Here, we're in Adobe's hosted user forum for Acrobat.
Any other application use is not material.
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Searchable Image, Searchable Image (Exact) & ClearScan.
Only the first two provide the "hidden" text output.
(Glyphs have no stroke, no fill)
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So you can see what the OCR output that correlates to the bit-map images of the characters that are present.
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