When searching for words and phrases in Easy PDF Search (EPS), you have 4 options:

For the first option, the process flow is as follows:

• EPS looks for all the folders set up in the selected libraries
• in each folder, EPS compiles a list of all the files matching the search pattern
• for each new file, EPS will index that file
• for each modified file, EPS will rebuild the index
• EPS then searches for the entered words/phrases in the list of files it compiled in step 2 above

For the second option, the process flow is as follows:

• EPS looks for all the folders set up in the selected libraries
• in each folder, EPS compiles a list of all the files matching the search pattern
• for each file, EPS deletes any existing index, and builds the index again
• EPS then searches for the entered words/phrases in the list of files it compiled in step 2 above

For the third option, the process flow is as follows:

• EPS looks for all the folders set up in the selected libraries
• in each folder, EPS compiles a list of all the files matching the search pattern
• EPS then searches for the entered words/phrases only in the files where an index has already been created

For the fourth option, the process flow is as follows:

• EPS searches for the entered words/phrases in its existing index.

The point to note is that in the first 3 options, Easy PDF Search only returns results from files that exist.  If a PDF file has already been indexed previously but no longer exists, EPS will not search the index of that file.