05-10-2014, 01:34 PM
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Software that provides FULL text search
Hello everyone!
Long time reader of this excellent forum. I have over 9,000 PDFs inside Calibre. I love the software but there are some serious limitations for searching. I need to be able to search within documents instead of relying on keywords manually/autofilled for each document. Any suggestions? I prefer Open Source (free) but am willing to pay any amount needed for a Windows or OSX program that can do this. Thank you! -Alexis |
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05-14-2014, 09:53 AM
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Hi Alexis,
half an hour ago i installed on my macbook recoll that accoording to its website is a full-text search tool for Unix and Linux desktops. Seems to do the job with both pdf and epub, even though the first pdf indexing is taking forever :-) It will tell you which books and for every book, at which page. Googling for "recoll alternative" seem to find other programs for window. Hope it helps |
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05-14-2014, 12:41 PM
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On Linux you could use Recoll, there's a Linux only PI that integrates Calibre and Recoll, you could probably create or enhance to make it work on OS/X. I use a Notepad++ macro and the Import from List PI to create a Reading List of the Windows Search Results. It shouldn't be too hard to do similar for results from Spotlight There are also pdf library tools mainly aimed at academia - Mendeley, Zotero and Citavi come to mind - there's calibre PI that hooks up with Mendeley BR Last edited by BetterRed; 05-18-2014 at 07:20 PM. |
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