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I have a fair few PDF's here - is there a quick way to run a search in all of them without having to go and open each one and search manually?
Cheers
Originally Posted by Saracen
Google desktop search?
yeah, i suspect any desktop search app ought to manage with pdf
Apart from the normal windows search, of course
Didn't really want to be installing google desktop, but guess I may have to.
Thanks
Agent Ransack - would that do it?
PeterC
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I used to use that to search through lecture notes/research papers.
some older pdfs were not searchable by it (probably text converted to outlines or something of that ilk).
There's Copernic - don't know what it's like:
Copernic Desktop Search - Download
PeterC
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Lemme know if you find something, all our invoices are stored as PDF's but with random letter/number names, so once they're archived and the main data deleted it's a real pain to find them.
(\___/) (\___/) (\___/) (\___/) (\___/) (\___/) (\___/)
(='.'=) (='.'=) (='.'=) (='.'=) (='.'=) (='.'=) (='.'=)
(")_(") (")_(") (")_(") (")_(") (")_(") (")_(") (")_(")
This is bunny and friends. He is fed up waiting for everyone to help him out, and decided to help himself instead!
A quick and dirty option would be to join all your PDF files into one huge document using PDFtk, and load that doc into acrobat reader & search it
Just tried Copernic and it can find words in PDFs.
PeterC
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Install Vista.Apart from the normal windows search, of course
Didn't really want to be installing google desktop, but guess I may have to.
Thanks
Use the pratically instant search (because of indexing).
Problem solved.
Create an MMC Snap-In for Searching PDF Files
(adobe's IFilter has some issues under 64bit, because adobe suck monkies).
throw new ArgumentException (String, String, Exception)
That link goes to a page that says 'Tocontinue click here' that just reloads.
There's another little app. that will find text in PDFs; it's free and portable:
Portable LookDisk Download - Softpedia
PeterC
Political lubricant:
Rocket WMD45
The GNU tool 'grep' can match text strings in binary files like PDFs, there's probably a Windows port of it, be it 'native' or cygwin.
grep is pratically garanteed not to work, be very slow, and well its a 1970's solution.
It can't understand PDF, so it will waste time searching bits that it couldn't be.
Text in PDFs isn't just a collection of Ansi/Unicode chars.
Any 'desktop' search worth its salt will work, and have comparativly lightning results.
throw new ArgumentException (String, String, Exception)
XP's search is a bit pants unless you tweak it a bit (for example, I couldn't get it to search within php files until I made a change). Haven't got the guide on this machine, but when I'm back at work I can post it, assuming you still need it by then
Yeah, xp search is useless
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