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* full text search: Adobe reader or Google Desktop search are both good choices because they highlight and locate the keywords you type. | * 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. | * metadata search: PDF Explorer or xPDFSearch (Total Commander extension) are both good choices to perform the metadata search. | ||
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|| [http://desktop.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Desktop Search] 1.2 | |||
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|| (1)not highlight and locate the keywords you type; (2)not support Chinese folder name | |||
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Revision as of 18:11, 26 December 2006
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)
Comparion of Solutions
| PDF type | Software | full text search | metadata search | comments |
| Text-PDF | Adobe reader 7.0.7 or Adobe acrobat | OK | OK (but slow) | the search function combined the full-text and metadata search |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
PDF type
- Text-PDF: 由文件檔轉成的PDF檔
- Image-PDF: 由圖檔轉成的PDF檔