Desktop search softwares and long PDF files: need your advice

[Jean Marc]

Hi all,

I've got a big PDF database (around 8 GB) and some of these PDF files are very long: 18,000 pages and 400 Mb. The PDF versions are different (v1.1 up to v1.6).

Beside its reliability, I would like to have a software that allows to locate searches (keywords) within PDFs.

What would you recommend?


Tia for your help ;)
Cheers


PS : I currently use Foxit Reader

[JRViejo]

Jean Marc,
Looks like your Foxit Reader has a Find feature, similar to Adobe Reader, according to a screen capture (seen below) on their Web site. That feature does not work for you?

[Jean Marc]

Hi JRViejo,

I know this feature but it's not handy when you've got a large amount of PDFs. Each time you have to perform a search through thousands of pages (!!!) and it's very tedious and long...

That's the reason why I'd like to have a desktop search software to quickly find what I want.

Tia,
Cheers

[Iangh]

http://www.copernic.com/en/products/desktop-search/home/index.html

Try this.

Ian

[Jean Marc]

Hi Ian,

I tried it but it can't do the job properly... ::)
It is unable to process large PDFs : obviously, it doesn't index the whole content and furthermore it is unable to open to large files (it freezes!).

Tia

[ruinebabine]

"InfoRapid Search & Replace (http://www.inforapid.de/html/searchreplace.htm)", free.

I am using it and it works well but I don't know how it will perform with so big pdf files as yours...

Please note:

"Searching PDF files
Before you can search PDF files with InfoRapid, you first have to copy the freeware program pdftotext.exe, which is part of the XPDF package (http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/), into the installation directory of InfoRapid Search & Replace. Please click here (http://www.inforapid.org/se/xpdf.zip) to download a zip archive with the program pdftotext.exe."

[Iangh]

-{ Quote: "Hi Ian,

I tried it but it can't do the job properly... ::)
It is unable to process large PDFs : obviously, it doesn't index the whole content and furthermore it is unable to open to large files (it freezes!).

Tia" }-

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-desktop-search-utility.htm

Try the last free X1 discussed here.

Ian

[Jean Marc]

Hi,

I tried X1 Desktop out and it can't do the job...
Hoping nfoRapid Search & Replace will be the right solution!

Cheers

[clansman77]

hi checkout
http://www.likasoft.com/document-search/
and
http://www.dtsearch.com/
two of the best inthe business
then there is google desktop search which has a cap of 10000 words per file.

[ejr]

I use ISYS.

It's not free nor is it cheap. But it sure does work well.

[Jean Marc]

Thanks for the advice, I'm gonna try them out;)

Cheers