CRIMP Alert: A Compiled List of PDF Managing and Search Tools

Posted by Ike Washington
Feb 8, 2008 at 01:42 PM

Derek

I index my zoot databases using dtSearch directly, without converting them first into html files. Works okay - some garbage indexed too. Having searched within dtSearch, I launch the file containing my search term from there; the correct Zoot database opens; I search within it to locate exactly whatever I’m looking for.

Where to store data? I switched from Net Snippets to Scrapbook/Firefox. A real delight to use - html, pdf, txt, doc, jpg, gif. One of the main reasons why I use Firefox. And dtSearch indexes scrapbook files perfectly, Zoot links, perfectly.

Ike

Derek Cornish wrote:

.... Zoot databases can themselves be indexed and searched by the
>same software, although they first have to be converted into (large) htm files -
>unless one is using Archivarius, apparently.

.... For a long time I used Net Snippets, which uses the Windows folder
>system to store its files and so allows desktop search engines to index and search
>them. But if you want to organize your downloaded files in more complex ways - for
>example, by using keywords or multiple categories - then you may have to look to
>dedicated web capturing tools like Surfulater or Web Research - even though their
>content may not be easily accessed by desktop search engines, nor easily linked to
>one’s chosen information manager.
> >Web Research (WR) is currently my main web
>capture tool for certain purposes - e.g., for pdf, htm, doc, and image files connected
>with particular projects, and for files I am keeping for semi-permanent reference
>purposes (e.g., software specifications, manuals, and so on). I can hyperlink from
>WR to Zoot and vice versa, so from that point of view it works well. The downside is that
>my search engine of choice, dtSearch, can only index and search the htm files stored in
>WR. Maybe I could persuade the Archivarius developers to take a look at WR’s database
>file format…