Please add native PDF search

[mgroen]

Now, searching for contents in PDF requires a plugin.

Could TC be enhanced so that searching in PDF files does not require plugins?

Thanks,

[ghisler(Author)]

Searching in PDFs is very complex because PDFs don't contain plain text, they contain instructions on where to put characters on a page for printing.

[Horst.Epp]

The PCREsearch plugin with the Oracle Outside In Technology Content Access filters
for example are fine for PDF content searching.
What would a TC internal solution do better ?

[Usher]

2Horst.Epp
Alt+F7 search works with content plugins (wdx), uLister seems to be Lister plugin (wlx) only.

WDX is xPDFSearch.

Edit: I can see you have edited your message, so I can add that PCRESearch may be slower than xPDFSearch.

[Horst.Epp]

2Horst.Epp
Alt+F7 search works with content plugins (wdx), uLister seems to be Lister plugin (wlx) only.

WDX is xPDFSearch.

Edit: I can see you have edited your message, so I can add that PCRESearch may be slower than xPDFSearch.

Yes, I know but I also use it for content searching of ODT and XLSX documents and its fast enough for me.
Most of the time I use the Windows index search with an PDF IFilter and jump from the results into TC.