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Locate 3.0 - great *FAST* HD search tool!
kronhead:
I have a question about searching the CONTENT of PDF files. I tried Locate32, and it finds some content but not others. I guess you really need something that understands PDF content? I have been using Copernic, and it finds things that Locate32 does not find. And when I open the PDF with a text editor, it does not find the content either ... But I can select the text in a PDF viewer. So it is definitely text, not image.
I started looking for something else when Copernic moved network drive support to its paid product. Locate32 looks great - but I do occasionally need to find content in PDF files.
Any suggestions?
Dan
tinjaw:
Locate is designed to serve the same purpose on Windows that GNU locate does on *nix boxes. It only indexes file metadata, not the contents of files.
f0dder:
kronhead, PDF files are... special.
For one, they can be compressed - that means anything not parsing the PDF files but treating as raw text (or binary) won't find the text. Some PDFs are in graphical format even if they don't contain anything but text... and they can also, iirc, contain PostScript code. So you definitely do need a searcher/indexer capable of parsing for decent results.
kronhead:
Locate is designed to serve the same purpose on Windows that GNU locate does on *nix boxes. It only indexes file metadata, not the contents of files.
-tinjaw (October 30, 2008, 10:44 AM)
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I know it does not index the contents, but you can search for files containing specific text, on the advanced screen - that's what I was using.
Dan
f0dder:
Locate is designed to serve the same purpose on Windows that GNU locate does on *nix boxes. It only indexes file metadata, not the contents of files.
-tinjaw (October 30, 2008, 10:44 AM)
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I know it does not index the contents, but you can search for files containing specific text, on the advanced screen - that's what I was using.-kronhead (October 30, 2008, 11:26 AM)
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Yup, and that doesn't do "content-aware" search, it searches raw contents.
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