Search the content of the books

[Jacare]

Hi,

is there a way to search in Calibre the content of my books with a word? I use today the Agent Ransack software (https://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack), but it is an external tool, not integrated with Calibre.

I have a Calibre library with 2.000 technical books and if I want to find, which book writes about a theme in some capitol, how can I search for it?

thanks for the help,

Jacare

[eschwartz]

Outside of calibre's purview.


There was a plugin: Recoll Full Text Search
But linux only (plus it has not been updated for the Qt5 change).

In theory, it should not be hard to do the same for Windows, should a Windows user know of a suitable indexing tool that can be accessed through python/CLI and be willing to put in the work to write a plugin.

[BetterRed]

@Jacare - Do the search with your preferred tool (WDS, Spotlight, Ransack, etc), select all the files in the results list, copy the file names to clipboard, use the Import List PI to read the clipboard to create a reading list, tag the books etc.

IIRC some search tools can save results as a CSV files, Import List can make of use CSV files.

BR

[Jacare]

@BetterRed - Thnaks for the answer.

It could be a way, but I am always looking for a different topic/word and I would need to import the result everytime...

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Jacare

@BetterRed - Thnaks for the answer.

It could be a way, but I am always looking for a different topic/word and I would need to import the result everytime...

So you need a plugin developed that takes a search term and communicates with Ransack - the Recoll PI could be used as a 'model'.

Or you could create a Windows automation script/macro using a tool such as AHK or PTFB. It would get the search term and location from you, do the search, save the results to clipboard, fire up Import List and press the relevant buttons to create the Reading List. This is what I've done.

BTW : Kovid has said in the longer term he intends developing a full text search facility within calibre.

BR

[Jacare]

Thanks Betterred and eschwartz!

[DaltonST]

Originally Posted by Jacare

Hi,

is there a way to search in Calibre the content of my books with a word? I use today the Agent Ransack software (https://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack), but it is an external tool, not integrated with Calibre.

I have a Calibre library with 2.000 technical books and if I want to find, which book writes about a theme in some capitol, how can I search for it?

thanks for the help,

Jacare

@Jacare:

Yes, but only if you have created a companion .txt format for each epub, pdf etc.

The MCS plug-in has a flexible full-text search tool using regular expressions and many other filters, but only for .txt formats. The theory is that it is cheaper to create a .txt copy one time and reuse it many times than vice-versa via dynamic text extraction from the original format for every search in the future.


DaltonST