Foxit PDF IFilter is designed to help users to index a large amount of PDF documents and then quickly find text within these documents. Documents residing inside organizations today are in PDF format. I have installed iFiler 9 for 64 bit platforms on two different Windows Server 2008 R2. On both servers the filter does allow the PDF files to be indexed but on both the filter creates thousands of folders in the root of C.
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I'd like to use Windows Search for searching through multiple PDFs in one go, but I see that in the Indexing Options' Advanced Options screen, PDF files don't have a registered IFilter:
What is an IFilter, and where can I get the appropriate one?
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https://dcxlmvj.weebly.com/blog/undefined-terms-worksheet-pdf. IFilters allow Windows Search to search within file contents.
Here are three popular PDF IFilters†:
- Foxit PDF IFilter (commercial)
- TET PDF IFilter (free/commercial)
- Adobe PDF IFilter (32-bit / 64-bit) (free)
After installing one, you should be able to search within PDF files in the same way that you can for other types of files.
†:This article from 2009 has performance numbers, but they may not apply to current versions of the filters.
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An alternative way to search through PDFs is to use the search function of PDF-XChange Viewer. It does not need indexing neither. This is my choice.
You can install the portable version. Hit CtrlShiftF to get the search dialog:
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You can use Mendeley; it's free.
First, add your PDF files and index them. After that, you can search them with auto-complete search.
- You can also add notes on the PDF files with it.
- If you have a lot a lot PDF files, sometimes RAM overflows when you try to index if this happen, just decrease count of PDF files.
- Be careful, Mendeley actually is an academic program for reference system (yes, also you can use it for adding references to your Word document. I used it when I wrote my PHd Thesis; it was wonderful), so it will try to upload your PDF files to its server. If you want to work offline, change Mendeley's internet options and give it a wrong/offline proxy IP (like 127.3.0.1) . Then you can work with it off-line.NOT: You can also search in HTML or word files with Mendeley.
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PDF XChange Viewer, which has a free version available, comes with a built-in iFilter.
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You can sort, filter pdf files based on title, pages etc using this shell extenion Debenu Bully scholarship edition for pcsx2 iso bios.
Additionally, this portable application extracts all data from pdf files and produces a tabluar output which you can use in your workflow pdfinfogui
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