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Originally Posted by Sabardeyn
BR,
I could be mistaken, because I didn't use Win7 (pro? ultimate?) for long (6 months) before I fried my mobo. But I'm pretty sure that I had Windows indexing epubs as they represented the greater part of my library. However, as I recall, I had to manually add several file types to be indexed, possibly including epub.
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If you could search the
contents of ePUBs you must have have installed an iFilter for epubs. Without an iFilter all that gets indexed are the file properties, name, size, file type, file create and modify dates etc, but not content. If you had such a thing can you remember where you got it, I've turned the planet inside-out & upside-down looking for one.
AFAIK the W8 & W7 indexers are the same, in W7 you can see what filters are installed via Nils Soper's SearchFilterView utility (see attachment), it probably works in W8 - I never tried it. Whatever you did on W7 should also be do-able on W8. I've tried a couple of kludges, but they resulted in corrupt indexes, meaning I had to reset the Indexing service and rebuild the indexes.
The main suppliers of iFilters that I'm aware of are iFiltershop and Citeknet, neither of them do an epub iFilter, or any other ebook formats. And I don't think MS even made one for LIT. The attitude seems to be - search is only needed by serious people, and serious people don't use ebook formats because there are no standards or conventions for annotations, citations etc. There's no shortage of PDF iFilters, MS, Adobe, Tracker, Foxit, Nitro... and similar all ship PDF iFilters.
An iFilter is a DLL that conforms to certain rules - its job is to extract the significant text from the file types it handles and pass that over to the service that maintains the index.
BR