Desktop search softwares and long PDF files: need your advice

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

 

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

 

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

Try this.

Ian

 

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

 

"InfoRapid Search & Replace", 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, into the installation directory of InfoRapid Search & Replace. Please click here to download a zip archive with the program pdftotext.exe."

 

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

Try the last free X1 discussed here.

Ian

 

Hi,

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

Cheers

 

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.

 

I use ISYS.

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

 

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

Cheers