I'm trying to figure out how to get Windows 10 to search PDF contents, rather than having to open each file to search manually.
According to this you can specify which file type should be content-searchable. When I do this on Windows 10, I see that the PDF file type is missing an IFilter ("Registered IFilter is not found"). Is this the right path? I can't find a Windows 10 PDF IFilter (well, Foxit has one, but it's over $1,000). Adobe has one here but it's only stated for Windows 7 and 8.
Any ideas?
You can simply install Adobe Acrobat or Reader and the PDF iFilter will install along with it. You'll get the 32 bit version but since the files are being indexed in the background, it shouldn't really matter.