I’m using Acrobat Pro DC. It does seem that the particular file I was trying to search is in picture mode and using the feature that’s supposed to turn it into text doesn’t make any difference. But I did expand my search and found other Hebrew pdfs that I could search even when pointed.

I have in the past successfully converted pdfs from picture to readable text and I don’t know why these won’t respond. I guess I’ll have to work around this issue.

It still seems to me that Nisus is also resistant to searching a pointed text without pointing the search word. I just tested that again to be sure. Something to live with.