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Originally Posted by MarjaE
No, I haven't looked at Powersearch. It might help within Calibre, but I doubt it would help with the books I haven't imported because I want to know whether it'll be worth the hassle. It takes time to pre-process the pdf files, in whole or in part, import them, type up the metadata, etc.
Do any of these build a possible-reading list which I can go through and check off?
Thanks.
P.S. Another possibility would be a search tool which can search for separate words, so, for example, a search for "plates" will not return "contemplates," and which can show results where the terms occur within siome reasonable distance of each other, and where they don't overlap, so that 1894 doesn't count as a hit for both "89" and "94."
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You can do that with regular expressions if you wanted which a lot of things including the Calibre Power Search plugin or the homemade grep method I suggested. e.g
Code:
pdfgrep -P "\bplates\b" foo.pdf
will find all the matches of plates but not contemplates or templates or whatever in the PDF foo.pdf. Lots of programs support regular expressions or regex but sometimes their are differences between them so you have to read the manual.
You could also look into a desktop wide tool like Recoll. It can export it's results as a spreadsheet (csv).