Search within a pdf eg for name or ref

[gazmoz17]

Hi,

We book jobs on transport and save the manifest (summary of jobs booked on that day). Plan is book mark the folder where these will be saved....

...but then want to search for individual ref/customer name within folder and each indiv pdf.

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So will save them down on a daily basis, but may want to search historically via ref number highlighted in yellow etc.

Many Thanks

[horst.epp]

Use version 1.5 of Everything
and let it index the content of your PDFs.
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Windows 11 Home x64 Version 23H2 (OS Build 22631.3958)
Everything 1.5.0.1383a (x64), Everything Toolbar 1.3.4

[void]

Please try the following search:

*.pdf 01.07. content:14055

content: = match file content.

[Phlashman]

Please try the following search:

*.pdf 01.07. content:14055

content: = match file content.

Does this require PDFs to be content indexed or will it work by looking for the content in the file(s) "real time" , be it a bit slower?

[void]

content doesn't need to be indexed.

It will just be a little slower.

Combine with as many other filters as possible..

The following search should be fast:

*.pdf 01.07. content:14055

[gazmoz17]

Hi,

Great thanks for this guys

Is there a way to have it highlight the matching search result in preview pane? eg 14055 highlight yellow in preview

If I did want to index anyway, can you just index a certain folder?

Say if I created a new folder in documnets called "manifests" ;just index/re-index that folder...would that make it any quicker or not required.

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Many thanks for your time.

[void]

Is there a way to have it highlight the matching search result in preview pane? eg 14055 highlight yellow in preview

Not yet, sorry.
A feature to do this is on my TODO list.

If I did want to index anyway, can you just index a certain folder?

Yes, under Tools -> Options -> Content, set Include only folders to: C:\Users\your-user-name\Documents

[gazmoz17]

Thank you. Yeah would be really handy if that became a feature.

I've seen a recommendation on this forum for Docfetcher. Played around today and it works well for searches within a document.

But other than that knowhere near as good as everything (I know built for diff purposes).

Many Thanks