Re: Looking for freeware .pdf searcher (not Acrobat)

de FTR 05/01/2006 05:11

Searcher wrote:
> pdf seems to be the topic of the month. I've been looking high and low for
> freeware (Windows) that will find text in .pdf files. Like Agent Ransack that
> handles .pdf's (I know there is a shareware version).
>
> Essentially:
> 1. Recurse through subdirectories.
> 2. Handle large (10 meg+) files.
> 3. NOT pay attention to the Adobe "No copy" flag that
> shuts some searchers down.
> 4. NOT be an indexer. I want a searcher for seldom used
> CD's and network drives.
> 5. Command line or GUI. Don't care.
> 6. Doesn't need to OCR images.
> 7. Not Acrobat reader (see #3)
>
> Anybody found anything that works?
>
> Thanks.
Try Copernic Desktop Search, or wilbur