xPDFSearch 1.11 - Content plugin to search text in PDF files

[AmberBand]

First: Thank you for this very, very helpful Plugin!
If you are scanning a local folder for a word which should be included in one of the PDF how does xPDFSearch works? It opens every PDF Document in the Temp-Folder and scans the text?
I ask because I am looking for a possibility to scan some PDF documents which are saved in a Webdav folder or Cloud. I can't get it to work with the Webdav plugin and I don't know if it's not possible because of technical limitations or it might work if I have the right configuration.

[Lefteous]

2AmberBand

If you are scanning a local folder for a word which should be included in one of the PDF how does xPDFSearch works? It opens every PDF Document in the Temp-Folder and scans the text?

The file is opened where it is not in the temp folder.

I ask because I am looking for a possibility to scan some PDF documents which are saved in a Webdav folder or Cloud. I can't get it to work with the Webdav plugin and I don't know if it's not possible because of technical limitations or it might work if I have the right configuration.

I guess the best way is to have a powerful server that provides this functionality. Downloading the file first and scan it locally sounds cumbersome. In TC you can use content plugins only for local and UNC paths.

[white]

Current version 1.07
A new version is ready for download. The new version supports 64 bit.

The complete list of changes can be viewed online.

Plugin page: Download, description und documentation
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"Plugin page: Download, description und documentation" contains information and download of version 1.05....

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2white
Thanks for the hint. I will fix it as soon as possible.

[Ovg]

2Lefteous
What about http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?p=279334#279334?

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2Ovg
Sorry for the delay. I have now continued my work on the plugin. So far I can only confirm that search for cyrillic text doesn't work.

[Ovg]

2Lefteous

Thank you for answer and very useful plugin. I'll wait...

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2Ovg
I cannot say for sure if I could support Unicode characters which would include Cyrillic characters using the code base I use for my plugin but it seems that TC doesn't support Unicode for this kind of searches. See here:
http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?p=166149#166149

[Lefteous]

Current version 1.10
A new version is ready for download. The new version is based on xpdf version 3.04. The plugin now supports Unicode in filenames and contains now a Croatian translation. I would like to thank all who contributed to this plugin.

The complete list of changes can be viewed online.

Plugin page: Download, description und documentation
xPDFSearch Homepage

[Ovg]

2Lefteous

Unfortunately it doesn't work with Cyrillic, but there is not any problem with English texts . BTW Thank you once more!!!

[Lefteous]

2Ovg
Yes I know - did you read my post before the release post? Don't hesitate o convince Christian Ghisler that Unicode support for text search plugins would be a nice feature.

[Ovg]

2Lefteous

Yes, I read and I'll try to ask Christian for this support.

[ghisler(Author)]

Hmm, what should ft_fulltextw be? UTF-16? or UTF-8?

[milo1012]

Hmm, what should ft_fulltextw be? UTF-16? or UTF-8?

If it's called ft_fulltextw, it should use Wide strings, meaning UTF-16.
(and also conforming to the Unicode functions TC already uses)

While UTF-8 could be possible, I think it's way easier for plugin authors to handle UTF-16, because of the native Win-API functions,
and UTF-8 needs special treatment, especially when the current text Window (current text portion) relies on characters that are in the past/next Window.
Of course, you'd also need to take care on double-word UTF-16 characters (High and Low Surrogates), but it's still a lot easier to handle than the UTF-8 encoding scheme.

[iana]

I'm not really an expert here but Cyrillic should be supported with the 8 bit ASCII code page, isn't Unicode needed for scripts with huge amount of chars like Chinese/Japanese/Korean?

ps I tested the custom fields and it displays Cyr chars properly, the searches works with Cyrillic too.

@Ovg

Unfortunately it doesn't work with Cyrillic

you should set regional settings to your language that might be the issue.