Searching trough multiple pdf files Thread poster: Pablo Bouvier
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I wrote myself  :
I have a lot of information in a pdf format (dictionnaries, glossaries, technical books, etc,) I am using as reference for my translations.
However, to search trough all this stuff is very time consuming. Someone can tell me if it exist some tool that can read multiple pdf files and open them highlighting the information I am looking for in one go?
Something like to search with Google trough the Googlebooks bibliotheques...
Addendum: I would like to give all you a big thank you to give me some insight about this issue. I will try now all this tools and take a decision on wich is the one that best suits my needs.
[Edited at 2010-09-16 08:53 GMT]
| | | | Samuel Murray 
Netherlands
Local time: 13:16
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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Pablo Bouvier wrote:
Someone can tell me if it exist some tool that can read multiple pdf files and open them highlighting the information I am looking for in one go?
The desktop search tool "Wilbur" indexes PDF files after converting it (in the background) to plain text.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/redtree/wilbur/index.html
| | | | Claudio Porcellana (X)
Italy
| Searching trough multiple pdf files | Sep 15, 2010 |
Logiterm and you'll have a powerful aligning tool too!
tha uses even PDFs for aligning
as an example, I was able to index ICD-9 that is a mission impossible otherwise, and have it almost bilingual (with number codes as a Rosetta stone)
a lot of huge EU PDFs
DOD Dictionary 2009
all REACH docs
and many, many others
and you can manage 3 kind of docs
bilingual, even Trados TM converted
monolingual
multilingual
... See more Logiterm and you'll have a powerful aligning tool too!
tha uses even PDFs for aligning
as an example, I was able to index ICD-9 that is a mission impossible otherwise, and have it almost bilingual (with number codes as a Rosetta stone)
a lot of huge EU PDFs
DOD Dictionary 2009
all REACH docs
and many, many others
and you can manage 3 kind of docs
bilingual, even Trados TM converted
monolingual
multilingual
furthermore, Logiterm manages almost every kind of docs, not only PDFs
Claudio
[Modificato alle 2010-09-15 22:06 GMT] ▲ Collapse
| | | | Hynek Palatin
Czech Republic
Local time: 13:16
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| Acrobat Reader Pro... | Sep 16, 2010 |
...can do the job in a simple way, provided the PDFs are on your PC.
| | | | | Effective File Search | Sep 16, 2010 |
In Spain we say "Cada maestrillo tiene su librillo", "Each little teacher has his little book". I very much like Effective File Search. It searches really fast in big directory structures and any kind of files.
| | | | Pablo Bouvier
Local time: 13:16
German to Spanish
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TOPIC STARTER | Searching trough multiple pdf files | Sep 16, 2010 |
Tomás Cano Binder, CT wrote: In Spain we say "Cada maestrillo tiene su librillo", "Each little teacher has his little book". I very much like Effective File Search. It searches really fast in big directory structures and any kind of files.
Indeed, The name of the application is promising.
Thanks for the info, Tomás!
| | | | | So THAT's why it didn't work for me! | Sep 16, 2010 |
Tadzio Carvallo wrote: ...can do the job in a simple way, provided the PDFs are on your PC.
Just the other day I tried searching a whole network directory full of PDFs that I KNEW had the search term in them, with zero results. This was quite baffling to me, but next time I'll copy them over to my HDD first (which is of course a major nuisance and shouldn't be necessary, but if it works...)
Best regards,
Benjamin
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The question has pretty much been answered, get a good desktop search tool.
A somewhat knowledgeable friend says DTSearch is really great for this. Customizable search profiles, in-context hits in dtsearch's own window, search in many formats including pdf etc. I haven't tried it though.
I'm not sure it makes much sense to collect many large EU pdfs though. In my experience, almost everything is also published in HTML, which is infinitely better for our purposes. You can just ... See more The question has pretty much been answered, get a good desktop search tool.
A somewhat knowledgeable friend says DTSearch is really great for this. Customizable search profiles, in-context hits in dtsearch's own window, search in many formats including pdf etc. I haven't tried it though.
I'm not sure it makes much sense to collect many large EU pdfs though. In my experience, almost everything is also published in HTML, which is infinitely better for our purposes. You can just grab two HTML files, autoalign them and go on with life. They match so closely you can just use autoaligned TMs without checking them.
For some reason, the treaties aren't easy to find in html, and the Council insists on producing its awful pdfs but everything else is out there in html or at least doc. ▲ Collapse
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