By the way, browsing(turning page back and forth) a 840 page PDF file in Acrobat Pro is really a pain in the neck.
Do you guys feel the same thing?
Hi all,
Both Acrobat Pro and OneNote search l
Hi all,
Both Acrobat Pro and OneNote search linearly so they aren't fast at all.
Today I opened up a 840-page book in Acrobat Pro (45MB file size), I searched for a word "Taylor", it took 5 minutes to finish and during this period and after this period, my M4 was slow like hell. I have to reboot in order to clean the memory.
I know OneNote is even bigger filesize than Acrobat, and also the searchable text will be lost when imported into OneNote, so I have not tried search such a big book in OneNote...
Anybody please recommend a good desktop search software that are fast and search into PDF files?
I have tried google desktop search, it looks like it does not search into PDF and other documents, am I right?
By the way, browsing(turning page back and forth) a 840 page PDF file in Acrobat Pro is really a pain in the neck.
Do you guys feel the same thing?
Google desktop search will index any regular, formatted, non-picture PDF. There is also a plugin from Omnipage that will allow GDS to index all 'picture' PDFs as well as text in any image file (jpeg/GIF/etc). Basically the plugin is a mini-version of the omnipage OCR engine, it then runs against any image file be it inside of a PDF or not. The plugin is still in beta, and it's pretty slow while indexing large volumes, but like GDS itself it's not at all noticable once the inital index is done. I used it on my entire drive (including a 600 page book taken from a camera and printed into a PDF) and it seems to have done a fairly good job.
I haven't found anything that will index text or handwriting in Onenote. (Maybe MSN search? I tried it but found it lacking and uninstalled it.) I'd love to have something that would index everything - OCR'd PDF's, OCR'd images, OneNote/Journal text and handwriting, email and other standard files. Too bad it doesn't seem to exist. Someone please let me know if I'm wrong...
GDS doesn't seem to do OneNote or Journal files (I haven't found a plugin for it either), but Windows Desktop Search will.
So we have to install two search tool?
Sometimes both the GDS and MDS missed the target as I have tried them previously and then I uninstalled them... in order to keep my computer at its minimal load...
I will see what you guys comment about and then decide to install which one...
There's an ifilter addin for GDS that should - in theory - allow GDS to search Onenote & Journal files via the same ifilter that Windows Desktop Search does. I've loaded the plugin but have yet to actually see it produce results. I've got indexing totally disabled so I'm wondering if the ifilter files will do anything.
Where did you find this plugin? A search for "one" and "onenote" in the GDS plugins page yielded me nothing...
You need the ifilter plugin. http://desktop.google.com/plugins/i/ifiltershop.html
All of the Windows/MSN search engines use these files to index specific file types. The idea is that all one needs to do to search a new file type is to create a new ifilter for users. This plugin allows GDS to tap into these 'translation' DLLs.
Once the plugin starts it allows you to input any file types (.jnt or .one) that you want to search via ifilter. The plugin then presumably finds the appropriate ifilter DLL to use.
Let me know if you have any success with this if you try it. While I admittedly haven't spent much time playing with it I'm not convinced that it's actually doing what I want it to do. (search within .jnt and .one files.)
I guess that I should also note that you should already have the ifilter DLLs loaded. I think they're automatically installed when you install journal / onenote.
Just for reference, the files are named ONFILTER.DLL and JNTFILTR.DLL
Anybody tried? I cannot seem to find these two dlls...
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