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Originally Posted by bookbrain
Hello everyone!
Long time reader of this excellent forum.
I have over 9,000 PDFs inside Calibre. I love the software but there are some serious limitations for searching. I need to be able to search within documents instead of relying on keywords manually/autofilled for each document.
Any suggestions? I prefer Open Source (free) but am willing to pay any amount needed for a Windows or OSX program that can do this.
Thank you!
-Alexis
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bookbrain - Windows Search and OS/X Spotlight will both index and search PDF's - you might want to install one of the enhanced PDF IFilters on Windows from Adobe, Foxit or Tracker XChange
On Linux you could use Recoll, there's a Linux only PI that integrates Calibre and Recoll, you could probably create or enhance to make it work on OS/X.
I use a Notepad++ macro and the Import from List PI to create a Reading List of the Windows Search Results. It shouldn't be too hard to do similar for results from Spotlight
There are also pdf library tools mainly aimed at academia - Mendeley, Zotero and Citavi come to mind - there's calibre PI that hooks up with Mendeley
BR