RE: Those effing CDs that rock

<< But .pdf files _are_ searchable. You use the search function within 
Adobe: click on the binoculars and enter the text you wish to seach for.>>

pdf text files are searchable but pdf image files are not. John specified
pdf image files.
It depends upon how the documents were scanned to Acrobat.
Acrobat 7.0 has a feature to use OCR to convert pdf image files to text ones
where possible. 

Duncan