Best tool for organizing and searching across PDF and Word docs?

Posted by Cassius
Dec 31, 2009 at 03:40 AM

In recent years, a problem that has developed in doing text searches using general search software is that many applications now compress their files. So a search application has to have the equivalent of a “codec” to “know” how to decompress the file format. (I use the word “codec” because I’ve forgotten the actual name for these software add-ins.) However, you might want to try FileLocator Pro at

http://www.mythicsoft.com/Page.aspx?type=filelocatorpro&page=home .

I used an earlier version of it, before everyone started compressing their file formats. Regrettably most of the software I use does not have the “codecs” needed for FileLocator Pro to work, but I expect that it does have what’s needed for PDF and Word files.

-cassius
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dan7000 wrote:
>I use Evernote for most of my notetaking and grabbing web pages for future reference.
>Evernote is great for storing the universe. But I keep finding myself needing to
>search across a small set of documents (like 20-30 documents) and quickly preview my
>search hits. Evernote is not so good at this—and it doesn’t do searching in Word at
>all.
> >I think Ultrarecall would probably do what I want—are there any others that
>people would recommend?
> >Bonus points for the following features that would be
>ideal but not 100% necessary:
>- search hit preview (ala google desktop or copernic
>search)
>- free, cheap, or at least a trial version
>- searches Wordperfect too