Search the full text in PDF files

尋找多個PDF檔案裡的資料

Suggestion

• full text search: Adobe reader or Google Desktop search are both good choices because they highlight and locate the keywords you type.
• metadata search: PDF Explorer or xPDFSearch (Total Commander extension) are both good choices to perform the metadata search.

Snapshot of xPDFSearch (Image hosted on Zooomr Photo Sharing)

Comparison of Solutions

PDF type	Software/Service	full text search	metadata search	comments
Text-PDF	Adobe reader 7.0.7 or Adobe acrobat	OK	OK (but slow)	(1)the search function combined the full-text and metadata search, (2) locate the keywords you type
Text-PDF	Google desktop search v4	OK, but only index the first 10,000 words	Title only
Text-PDF	Windows Desktop Search 02.06.5000.5378	OK (with PDF IFilter[1])	OK ex: author:someone
Text-PDF	PDF Explorer 1.5	OK	OK	(1)not highlight and locate the keywords you type; (2)extract and index the internal images
Text-PDF	PDF-XChange Viewer 1.0 (Build 0017)	OK	No	(1) Search "elearning" will find "creative learning", "e-Learning", and "elearning."; (2)異塵行者的介紹
Text-PDF	xPDFSearch 1.02 (Total Commander extension)	OK	OK	not highlight and locate the keywords you type
Text-PDF	Yahoo! Desktop Search 1.2	OK	No	(1)not highlight and locate the keywords you type; (2)not support Chinese folder name
Text-PDF	GMail	No	No	but Gmail search supports searching the filename in Chinese. access: 2007-05-17
Text-PDF	Yahoo! Mail	OK	No	support English only. access: 2007-05-17
Image-PDF	Google desktop search + OmniPage Search Indexer	OK, but only index the first 10,000 words	Title only	Quick, English Only
	Fox Reader 2.0	No (single PDF file only)

PDF type

• Text-PDF: The PDF file generated from text files. 由文件檔轉成的PDF檔
• Image-PDF: The PDF file generated from image files. 由圖檔轉成的PDF檔