Could you provide more information?
- How were the PDFs imported into Endnote (e.g., Auto Import, .xml file, etc.)? Did you try importing the PDFs in smaller groups batches of files instead of one large group? (Importing them in multiple groups of may also help identify problematic/corrupted files which may be impeding the import process.) If you have PDFs with long filenames try shortening the file name.
- For the PDFs that you say aren’t searchable:
a. Did you include PDF or the Any Field + PDF from the EndNote field terms (click the pulldown menu) as the search parameters?
b. Did you check to see if the PDFs are text-based or are they scanned images (essentially a picture of the document so there’s no text that Endnote can read/search)? You can check this by taking one of the problematic PDFs and see if you can either: 1) copy and paste the scanned text into MS Word; 2) use the Adobe Reader search box to test whether searches can be performed within the PDF.
If you’re dealing with the scanned images instead of searchable text PDF documents you still might be able to convert the scanned image using OCR text recognition available only in the full version of Adobe Acrobat .