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wallcraft · 10-31-2007, 11:18 AM

xpdf has text search. It also has a stand-alone command pdftotext, which is actually used by several Linux "filesystem search" packages to handle PDF files. For example, see PDFsearch and RECOLL. I'm not sure either could be made to work on the iLiad (RECOLL needs qt for example). Even so, searching PDFs should be possible on the iLiad, both when viewing a PDF document and as a system wide search (via pdftotext).

What is not possible is a system-wide search of compressed or encrypted e-book formats. I have not looked at what ConvertLIT produces on the iLiad, but "exploded" .LIT e-books may be the easiest to search because the content ends up as uncompressed .html files. Searching individual e-books is already possible with FBReader, and this should also be possible with MobiPocket's Reader (it is already available in the native, not Java-based, MobiPocket Readers on other devices).

10-31-2007, 11:18 AM	#8
wallcraft reader Posts: 6,975 Karma: 5183568 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mississippi, USA Device: Kindle 3, Kobo Glo HD	xpdf has text search. It also has a stand-alone command pdftotext, which is actually used by several Linux "filesystem search" packages to handle PDF files. For example, see PDFsearch and RECOLL. I'm not sure either could be made to work on the iLiad (RECOLL needs qt for example). Even so, searching PDFs should be possible on the iLiad, both when viewing a PDF document and as a system wide search (via pdftotext). What is not possible is a system-wide search of compressed or encrypted e-book formats. I have not looked at what ConvertLIT produces on the iLiad, but "exploded" .LIT e-books may be the easiest to search because the content ends up as uncompressed .html files. Searching individual e-books is already possible with FBReader, and this should also be possible with MobiPocket's Reader (it is already available in the native, not Java-based, MobiPocket Readers on other devices).