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|| <b>Software</b> | || <b>Software/Service</b> | ||
|| <b>full text search</b> | || <b>full text search</b> | ||
|| <b>metadata search</b> | || <b>metadata search</b> | ||
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|| No | || No | ||
|| (1)not highlight and locate the keywords you type; (2)not support Chinese folder name | || (1)not highlight and locate the keywords you type; (2)not support Chinese folder name | ||
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| Text-PDF | |||
|| [https://mail.google.com/mail/ GMail] | |||
|| No | |||
|| No | |||
|| but support search the [https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=7190&query=search+filename&topic=&type=f&ctx=search filename] in Chinese. access: 2007-05-17 | |||
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| Text-PDF | |||
|| [http://mail.yahoo.com.tw/ Yahoo! Mail] | |||
|| OK | |||
|| No | |||
|| [http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/bizmail/manage/manage-04.html support] English only. access: 2007-05-17 | |||
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| Image-PDF | | Image-PDF | ||
Revision as of 02:34, 17 May 2007
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 | 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 support search 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