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尋找多個PDF檔案裡的資料(PDF跨文件全文搜索)
Suggestion
- full text search: Adobe reader is good choice because they highlight and locate the keywords you type.
- metadata search: Metadata is the data of data. You can fulfill the information of author, keywords when you generated the PDF file. PDF Explorer or xPDFSearch (Total Commander extension) are both good choices to perform the metadata search.
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 | Adobe SHARE beta | OK (English only) | No | access: 2007-11-28 | |
Text-PDF | Fox Reader v. 5.1.0 (Foxit Reader Portable) | OK | No | able to locate the keywords you typed | |
Text-PDF | EvernotePremium Feature: PDF Search($) | OK (Searching keyword in Chinese is Ok) and quickhttps://www.planetoid.info/images/Good.gif | OK | Highlight the keyword you search. But not locate the position of keyword. access: 2012-06-27 | |
Text-PDF | GMail | No | No | but Gmail search supports searching the filename in Chinese. access: 2007-05-17 | |
Text-PDF | Google desktop search v4 | OK, but only index the first 10,000 words | Title only | ||
Text-PDF | Locate32 3.0.8.1200 | No, only find some words | OK (English only) | access: 2008-02-07 | |
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 | Windows Desktop Search 02.06.5000.5378 | OK (with PDF IFilter[1]) | OK ex: author:someone | ||
Text-PDF | Windows Search 4.0 | OK | OK (中文可) | (1)not highlight and locate the keywords you type; (2)indexing too many filetypes and not easy to be customized | |
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 | 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 |
- PDF type: Text-PDF
- Full text search: Available
- Metadata search: Not available
- Annotation search:
- Chinese issue: ok
- Indexing for better performance:
- Locate the keywords you type: ok
- Support boolean search: (1) OR: To matches the content contains TERM_A or TERM_A e.g. pdfgrep -n --max-count 10 TERM_A|TERM_B foo.pdf (2) AND: Add the option -P, --perl-regexp[2]. To matches the content contains TERM_A and TERM_B e.g. pdfgrep -n --max-count 10 -i -P '(?=.*TERM_A)(?=.*TERM_B).*' foo.pdf
- Comments:
$ PDF Search v. 1.7 for Mac
- PDF type: Text-PDF. Not for Image-PDF.
- Full text search: Available
- Metadata search: Not available
- Annotation search:
- Chinese issue: Not ok!
- Indexing for better performance: Available
- Locate the keywords you type: Available
- Support boolean search: Available. See details on Narrate Results.
- Comments: Good for searching PDF documents in English. There are still some technical issues in Chinese.
Microsoft OneNote [Last visited: 2018-06-19]
- PDF type: Text-PDF / Image-PDF
- Full text search: Available.
- Metadata search:
- Annotation search:
- Chinese issue:
- Indexing for better performance:
- Locate the keywords you type: Not highlight the location of matched keyword.
- Support boolean search:
- Comments:
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
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* PDF type: Text-PDF / Image-PDF * Full text search: * Metadata search: * Annotation search: * Chinese issue: * Indexing for better performance: * Locate the keywords you type: * Support boolean search: * Comments:
其他組織管理PDF文件的軟體
- Adobe - Digital Editions v1.0.467
- organization: bookshelf(folder: PDF檔僅能置於一個bookshelf)
- search: 僅能搜尋單一PDF檔內的文字,無法跨檔案搜尋。
Further reading
- Chin-Hsi Lin (2009). 研究生2.0: 用PDF XChange Viewer查詢英文關鍵詞
References