Searching for file content...

[riggie111]

I'm wanting to search for file content inside of a .pdf or word document.
For example, I want to know which files contain the word berberine.

I've searched a folder (containing .pdf and word documents) under the tab "contents" to see if xyplorer could use
the word berberine to find a document containing this word.

All my attempts have been unsuccessful... can anyone help?

thanks,
Riggie

[j_c_hallgren]

Hi and welcome to the XY forums!

Unfortunately, XY search is only for any strings which you can see visible in Raw View tab and both those file types are (in a way) compressed/encrypted so text isn't normal ASCII and thus can't be found. It's been a topic here before.

[Enternal]

Hello. In the meantime, you can use:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/search_my_files.html