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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
If you can find an external program to search the PDFs (I use Agent Ransack, but it's a bit expensive), you can use the Drop Search Results plugin to drag and drop the results in and have them display in Calibre. It's not really the integrated solution you were looking for but it's the best we have for now. |
Agent Ransack/File Locator LITE is free, it's maybe good enough for some. AFAIK the MythicSoft products are only available for MS Windows.
But, IMO the Windows 10 Search feature is good enough for most people, especially if they use the
Advanced Query Syntax
An ePub iFilter for Windows is available, there's a link in the Useful tools sticky in the Related Tools sub-forum.
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Originally Posted by NeHe
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.
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Since you mention Recoll I assume you're using Linux
There is a Recoll plugin, see
Index of plugins. But I'm pretty sure it only works on very old versions of calibre, and that the originator has abandoned it. You could modify it for your own use.
Or do as you suggest, use Recoll, or another Linux full text utilities directly. I'm not sure which Linux search utilities work with the Drop Search Results; have a look in the DSR thread.
Full text search is on Kovid's longer term to do list, he's mentioned using Lucene as the search engine.
BR