Thread: Searching within books, is it possible
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Old 07-08-2020, 04:13 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by NeHe View Post
Hi there. I am a new user, and have a Calibre library including several hundred pdfs of scanned books (textbooks from my University days and a large cookbook collection) converted to PDF and OCRed so they are indexed and individually searchable.

Is there a plugin or other companion app that would be able to search content within a book? So for example I could search for "banana bread" and find which cookbooks had a banana bread recipe in them.

There are desktop search tools (Recoll for example) that I could point at the library directory, but I was wondering if there is something more integrated that people have used?

Thanks.

--Neil.
Sorry, there are no plugins that will search the text layer of PDF.
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