Search for a keyword within all ebooks on hard drive and

bounce · 11-20-2014, 02:42 PM

Is there an OSX app that will search within the content of all ebooks (pdf, mobi, epub) on a hard drive for a keyword or phrase and then list books it occurs in most. A Calibre plug-in, would be ok, but I'm really looking for a whole hard drive search. I'm thinking like Deep view in in the Marvin app where it has a top-down list like:

New York Times
appears 15 times

Web
appears 11 times

Shakespeare
appears 10 times

eschwartz · 11-20-2014, 03:28 PM

Quality Check PI can search, but EPUBs only.

There is Recoll Full Text Search which searches all ebooks (except I cannot see anything about a MOBI filter on the recoll website...). It claims to be linux-only, but recoll should run on OSX as well (according to the recoll website), so, possibly with a little tweaking, should work.

Spotlight should index EPUB and MOBI natively.

Jessica Lares · 11-20-2014, 05:59 PM

Mmmm, that is probably something you could build with AppleScript.

You can do multiple Spotlight searches (within the script) and then have the data written to a text file.

bounce · 11-20-2014, 06:40 PM

That's a good point, I'd just have to find someone to do the job. If there is a more ready-made and non-calibre solution, I'm still listening. Cheers

mrevent · 04-10-2016, 09:54 AM

No progress on this issue, I presume? I'm on OS X Mavericks, and spotlight does not index the contents of .mobi files, (nor of .azw files).

11-20-2014, 02:42 PM	#1
bounce Zealot Posts: 133 Karma: 13892 Join Date: Mar 2010 Device: Ipad, Kindle 7	Search for a keyword within all ebooks on hard drive and Is there an OSX app that will search within the content of all ebooks (pdf, mobi, epub) on a hard drive for a keyword or phrase and then list books it occurs in most. A Calibre plug-in, would be ok, but I'm really looking for a whole hard drive search. I'm thinking like Deep view in in the Marvin app where it has a top-down list like: New York Times appears 15 times Web appears 11 times Shakespeare appears 10 times

11-20-2014, 03:28 PM	#2
eschwartz Ex-Helpdesk Junkie Posts: 19,421 Karma: 85400180 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)	Quality Check PI can search, but EPUBs only. There is Recoll Full Text Search which searches all ebooks (except I cannot see anything about a MOBI filter on the recoll website...). It claims to be linux-only, but recoll should run on OSX as well (according to the recoll website), so, possibly with a little tweaking, should work. Spotlight should index EPUB and MOBI natively. Last edited by eschwartz; 11-20-2014 at 03:35 PM.

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11-20-2014, 05:59 PM	#3
Jessica Lares Wizard Posts: 2,240 Karma: 5759170 Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Near Dallas, Texas, USA Device: iPad Mini, iPod Touch (5th gen)	Mmmm, that is probably something you could build with AppleScript. You can do multiple Spotlight searches (within the script) and then have the data written to a text file.

11-20-2014, 06:40 PM	#4
bounce Zealot Posts: 133 Karma: 13892 Join Date: Mar 2010 Device: Ipad, Kindle 7	That's a good point, I'd just have to find someone to do the job. If there is a more ready-made and non-calibre solution, I'm still listening. Cheers

04-10-2016, 09:54 AM	#5
mrevent Zealot Posts: 105 Karma: 87300 Join Date: Feb 2011 Device: kindle 3w, dxg, 5, Kv	No progress on this issue, I presume? I'm on OS X Mavericks, and spotlight does not index the contents of .mobi files, (nor of .azw files).

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