In today’s fast-paced digital environment, professionals across the AEC industry grapple with the challenge of managing and reviewing PDF documents. Bluebeam Revu offers a powerful solution with its Visual Search feature, providing a seamless method to quickly locate symbols, text, and details across a multitude of pages.
Understanding Visual Search
Visual Search allows you to identify and highlight instances of a specific item within your PDFs. It’s especially useful when working with large sets of documents where manual searching is tedious and impractical. There are many benefits to utilizing the Visual Search tool within Bluebeam, including time efficiency, accuracy, and enhanced productivity. Visual Search drastically reduces the time spent on manual searches. It can scan through hundreds of pages and give you a clean result in a matter of seconds. Visual Search also ensures that every search item occurrence is found, improving the accuracy of your document review process.
How to use Visual Search
To use the Visual Search function in Bluebeam, navigate to the search icon on your side panel. There you will see two icons next to “Search” at the top. Select the second icon which is the Visual Search feature.
From there, select the “Get Rectangle” option to click and drag a rectangle around any item on your PDF as the search target. Once you have outlined the object, Visual Search will give you a thumbnail of that object as the target for your search. You will see that you have many options to customize your search results that allow for searching multiple files and folders at once, including markups in your search, and even adjusting the sensitivity of your search results!
Run the search and review the results. Visual Search will list all the matches, to which you can quickly navigate. Once you have your results, you can apply actions to them, such as adding hyperlinks, highlights, or even adding count object symbols to each item, enhancing your efficiency even further.
Visual Search in Bluebeam Revu is a robust feature that offers significant advantages to anyone looking to improve their document management process. Whether you are in construction, engineering, legal, or any field dealing with large-scale document sets, Visual Search can transform the way you interact with your PDFs, saving time and ensuring a more thorough review process. By automating the search process, you can redirect your focus towards more critical tasks, optimizing your workflow and productivity.
