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Old 07-11-2022, 09:24 PM   #64
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Originally Posted by Andy52 View Post
I tried Calibre's new full text search. Is it possible, that Calibre has problems indexing PDF files? If I try to search my cookbooks, Calibre finds only a few books, whereas Finder shows much more.
Thy for any solution.

calibre uses the pdftotext utility from the poppler project to extract text from PDF files. If you have some PDF files that are not being indexed, opena bug report and attach one or two and I will see if anything can be done to coax pdftotext to do better.
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