UltraFinder is an advanced search tool for Windows machines and it can be used to search for text inside your PDF files as well. Set the options as the following so it searches the contents of your PDF files. Then hit the green play button to start searching. Mahesh has been obsessed with technology since he got his first gadget a decade or so ago. Over the last few years, he's written a number of tech articles on various online publications including but not limited to MakeTechEasier and Android AppStorm.
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Windows Search 3. SeekFast 4. UltraFinder 5. DocFetcher 6. If you need to find a specific phrase, word, or a combination of words in multiple PDF files, you usually search for it in each file one by one, which costs you a lot of time and effort. Without any doubt, Acrobat Reader is the most commonly used program for reading PDF files, and you can use it not only to read, but also to search text in multiple PDF files. Download and install Acrobat Reader on your computer and launch it.
In the search results, click the arrow to the left of the file name to see the sentences containing your search terms. For this purpose, however, you need to have a special plugin installed — PDF IFilter — which is used by Windows Search to index the contents of your files. You will have to download and install it from the Adobe IFilter download page. Please keep in mind that Windows will need some time to index the contents of your files.
It takes just a few steps to perform a search:. Download , install, and launch SeekFast. In the search results, click on the file name to open the PDF file, or click on the sentence to view a larger part of the text.
UltraFinder is yet another tool developed by the creators of the very poplar text editor UltraEdit, which allows you to perform text searches in multiple PDFs. You can even specify one or more specific PDF files to be searched! PDF" into the address bar and press enter, or click the file icon to browse to and select the PDF file you wish to add. You can tell UltraFinder what text to search for in your PDF files by simply typing or pasting the search text into the Find what field.
You can configure your PDF search further with more filters and further find options if you'd like. To learn more about these options, please see the search and find text in files power tip. The Launch App feature gives you an option to open the application you are searching for with just two clicks of Ctrl key.
Listary can also keep track of your history of file search which can save you additional time when you want to search for the same file again.
With Looken you can search for files easily and never again lose time to search for a file by yourself. You can even edit your text files with the preview window and use filter options to speed up file searches. If you look for a desktop application that has a very simple interface, Everything is the one. It builds its own database of files by indexing files and folder names. Every time you make changes to a file, the app will update its database before it starts the file search.
MultiFind displays different tabs for separate categories of files: found files, skipped files, errors.
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