To remove the full path to your find results add:
-exec basename {} \;
to your search:
bash-4.1$ find . -type f -name "*.pdf" -exec basename {} \;
FreeBSD_Portability_With_VMware_BSD_04_2011.pdf
Network_Security_Hakin9_02_2011.pdf
Tag: find
Find and exec
An example:
find . -name "*.zip" -type f -exec unzip {} \;