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Originally Posted by MarjaE
Is there any way to search the contents of files in Calibre? (Aside from leaving Calibre and using operating system search tools?) I tried looking this up in the help page, and ended up with a lot about tables of contents.
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In Windows, and if you're prepared to carry the overhead of an extra format (e.g. as eschwartz suggests - TXT) then a combination of an OS level search tool and the
Drop Search Results (DSR) plugin is a pretty good option.
I mainly use X1 Search for content searching, but I have also used/tested Agent Ransack, File Locator Pro, the Find feature of zabkat's xplorer˛, nirsoft's Search My Files, and of course Windows Search in conjunction with DSR - and they all work.
I like the notion of being able to use a different search tools
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Although there is probably an EPUB ifilter somewhere.
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I wish someone would tell us where it is then, I've searched high and low for it over several years -so far no luck.
I can coerce X1 into looking inside epubs, but it's 'ugly' and practically impossible to get it to interop with DSR.
BR