You can use the SearchFilterView from Nirsoft to see what IFilters you have installed.
It also allows you to change the assigments on the fly.
https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/search_filter_view.html
Search in multiple PDFs?
Re: Search in multiple PDFs?
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Re: Search in multiple PDFs?
Btw, this is the one in W 10 20H2:
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Windows.Data.Pdf.dll Reader Search Handler PDF WinRT APIs 10.0.19041.1
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Re: Search in multiple PDFs?
Looks like I have two different Filters for PDF as far as I see?
Re: Search in multiple PDFs?
You have, correct.
Does it help if you tick
Configuration | Other | Shell Integration | 64-bit Windows | Fall back to IFilters of the other bitness
?
Does it help if you tick
Configuration | Other | Shell Integration | 64-bit Windows | Fall back to IFilters of the other bitness
?
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Re: Search in multiple PDFs?
It does not, indeed. Maybe I have to uninstall the non-Microsoft filter.
I don't have to change anything in the windows settings themselves do I?
I don't have to change anything in the windows settings themselves do I?
Re: Search in multiple PDFs?
Open the control panel, type "index" in the upper right corner into the search field, select: "Indexing options" in the upcoming list of entries
Click the "Advanced" button
Click the "File types" tab
Which "Filter Description" do you have for the .pdf entry?
By default it is the "Reader Search Handler"
If it's not you could try to uninstall your pdf tool and then check that entry again...
This link has an explanation of how the registry settings must be set to activate the Windows default filter...
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/probl ... -ibase-90x
Click the "Advanced" button
Click the "File types" tab
Which "Filter Description" do you have for the .pdf entry?
By default it is the "Reader Search Handler"
If it's not you could try to uninstall your pdf tool and then check that entry again...
This link has an explanation of how the registry settings must be set to activate the Windows default filter...
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/probl ... -ibase-90x
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Re: Search in multiple PDFs?
Edit: uninstalled, still nothing. I checked SearchFilterView and the "Reader Search Handler" shows no extensions underneath. I'll add PDF manually, maybe it'll help.
Edit2: now it seems to be working! It was searching the wrong location, not any of the tabs currently open but something completely different. When resetting the filters it doesn't reset the "location" tab in which it searches, any way to do that? Is there a real "search" button, or is CTRL+F the best way?
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Re: Search in multiple PDFs?
Look in the Windows Indexing settings to ensure that the TETPDFiFilter is set to "Index Properties and File Contents" for PDF.
I used this iFilter many years with no problems before I switched to SumatraPDF.
I used this iFilter many years with no problems before I switched to SumatraPDF.
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Re: Search in multiple PDFs?
Hi, sorry for being late to the party.
For me the pdf-content-search of XY has been unreliable from the very beginning. Every now and then it just does not find all pdfs (but only finds some of the ones containing the search string). Every now and then I give it another test drive. Just now I had that same problem again and thought I will finally mention this problem for the sake of other people, at least, which is why I now found this thread.
The good news, that have not been mentioned here so far, are that there is a free and good alternative software:
Agent Ransack https://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/ respectively FileLocator Lite
(Supposedly both are the same but still have a different name, download and installation file - don't ask me, why.)
There even is an "add-on" here in the forum to help with usage from within XY: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=11197&hilit=agent+ransack
and many other mentions of it in other threads: search.php?st=0&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&keyw ... k&start=15
May you all enjoy your life, S.
For me the pdf-content-search of XY has been unreliable from the very beginning. Every now and then it just does not find all pdfs (but only finds some of the ones containing the search string). Every now and then I give it another test drive. Just now I had that same problem again and thought I will finally mention this problem for the sake of other people, at least, which is why I now found this thread.
The good news, that have not been mentioned here so far, are that there is a free and good alternative software:
Agent Ransack https://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/ respectively FileLocator Lite
(Supposedly both are the same but still have a different name, download and installation file - don't ask me, why.)
There even is an "add-on" here in the forum to help with usage from within XY: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=11197&hilit=agent+ransack
and many other mentions of it in other threads: search.php?st=0&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&keyw ... k&start=15
May you all enjoy your life, S.
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Re: Search in multiple PDFs?
Send me a PDF-file that is not found but should be found. I can check what's going on...
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Yea, well, I kind of appreciate the sentiment but I am not convinced that this would raise the trustworthyness of that feature for me to the same level as I feel Agent Ransack has it. Those programmers were able to get it to work properly, as it seems, without my test files. So, I would only start trusting the iFilter based content search of XY when it also works like Agent Ransack without me sending in test files.
Otherwise, if I did send in my test files - if it even could get fixed for these files - I would feel like that was a fix now for one problem in the algorithm but would not feel sure enough that there is not a more basic problem with the algorithm to begin with which could still lead to other files not being found anytime. Hope you understand. If not, it is also no problem for me, since I like using Agent Ransack. So, all is ok.
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