Rediscovering FoxTrot Pro

Posted by Dellu
Apr 29, 2019 at 08:28 PM

satis wrote:

>> “PDF search” (http://www.pdfsearchapp.com/) is much more functional
>>than FoxTrot personal.
> >I wonder what it offers over the less expensive DEVONsphere Express
>and/or HoudahSpot.

PDF search is better than the rest of the search software because it makes a page-by-page comparison. Others including Foxtrot, Devonsphere and Devonthink ranks files by simply counting the number of words occurring across the whole document (file).

I used to complement this weakness by exploding (splitting) large pdf files into smaller chunks. You can look at: https://wordpress.com/post/dellu.wordpress.com/558

As the comments in the linked page suggest, there are indeed some drawbacks to compare smaller chunks (pages). But, my experience has been, breaking large documents is very useful to spot the right section/document/page.

With PDF search, there is no need to split large files because it indexes each page individually.