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Please add native PDF search
Posted: 2020-02-17, 10:04 UTC
by mgroen
Now, searching for contents in PDF requires a plugin.
Could TC be enhanced so that searching in PDF files does not require plugins?
Thanks,
Re: Please add native PDF search
Posted: 2020-02-17, 16:13 UTC
by ghisler(Author)
Searching in PDFs is very complex because PDFs don't contain plain text, they contain instructions on where to put characters on a page for printing.
Re: Please add native PDF search
Posted: 2020-02-17, 16:41 UTC
by Horst.Epp
The PCREsearch plugin with the Oracle Outside In Technology Content Access filters
for example are fine for PDF content searching.
What would a TC internal solution do better ?
Re: Please add native PDF search
Posted: 2020-02-17, 17:00 UTC
by Usher
2Horst.Epp
Alt+F7 search works with content plugins (wdx), uLister seems to be Lister plugin (wlx) only.
WDX is xPDFSearch.
Edit: I can see you have edited your message, so I can add that PCRESearch may be slower than xPDFSearch.
Re: Please add native PDF search
Posted: 2020-02-17, 17:16 UTC
by Horst.Epp
Usher wrote: ↑2020-02-17, 17:00 UTC
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Horst.Epp
Alt+F7 search works with content plugins (wdx), uLister seems to be Lister plugin (wlx) only.
WDX is xPDFSearch.
Edit: I can see you have edited your message, so I can add that PCRESearch may be slower than xPDFSearch.
Yes, I know but I also use it for content searching of ODT and XLSX documents and its fast enough for me.
Most of the time I use the Windows index search with an PDF IFilter and jump from the results into TC.