Searching within PDF text

So here is what I have: Currently Bridge can search using the Quick Search and also with the "Find..." command for a more detailed search of metadata information. This is great for searching pictures, editing metadata, and saving searches to collections. However, I also have PDF files that I would like treat exactly the same. Is there any possible way to search the text inside the PDF using Bridge? OR is there another solution, besides Bridge, to manage image and PDF files and their metadata?
Right now, I am working on a mac, so I can utilize the Spotlight feature in OSX to search inside the PDF. Once I conduct that search, I have to move those files to a new independent location, go back to Bridge and edit their metadata (mostly their IPTC Keywords, Location, etc), and then move them back into their original folder. This may seem a little tedious, but unfortunately I wont even have that capability because the intended OS for this work is going to be Windows XP, and I am unaware of XPs PDF searching. I would really like to stay in one program for all of this work. I need something with the searching capability of say X1, and the metadata management like Bridge. Any ideas of what my options are?
Thanks,
Peter

I searched the forums prior to this post, but I couldn't seem to find a topic covering the issue I have with the search feature in Preview.
There is a thread on searchable smart typographic shaping. If you don't mind, I should prefer to talk on that thread. The cause of your problem can be anywhere in a monster size bug matrix. It is not very likely that the cause of your problem can be determined, but it can't hurt to try to figure out what you are doing and see if there is some sort of relatively simple reason. There's a person who says there's supposed to be no problem with PDF, perhaps he has some ideas, too.
Since the introduction of Adobe PostScript for the Apple LaserWriter in January 1985, the DTP attitude has been that as long as one could make the mark on the medium, it did not matter how one managed to do that. Type products draw glyphs by incorrect public character specifications and more recently by private 'character' specifications. This is OK for hardcopy, but not for softcopy as searching is by character codes and not by glyph codes. There are also problems with PDF per se.
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Reference:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7872018#7872018

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