{"id":1224,"date":"2021-02-26T00:29:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T16:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2021-02-26T10:55:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T02:55:55","slug":"search-text-in-multiple-pdf-files-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/2021\/02\/26\/search-text-in-multiple-pdf-files-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Search text in multiple PDF files fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So you want to search for text in multiple PDF files?\u00a0 You can do that in Adobe Acrobat, and Google will turn up a few guides on doing that.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all good and fine, but what if you need the search results <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">fast<\/span> and you need to search <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">hundreds or thousands<\/span> of PDF files?\u00a0 Then you should consider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/ya_eps_overview.htm\">Easy PDF Search<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Speed<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/ya_eps_overview.htm\">Easy PDF Search<\/a> is fast.\u00a0 Watch this <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Kbk8xVLlGFY\">video<\/a> comparing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/ya_eps_overview.htm\">Easy PDF Search<\/a> with Adobe Acrobat.\u00a0 In short, to search for a word the second in 46 files totaling 1 GB in size, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/ya_eps_overview.htm\">Easy PDF Search<\/a> took <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">3 seconds<\/span> while Adobe Acrobat took <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">3 minutes 13 seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/ya_eps_casestudy01.htm\">user who regularly searches his collection of over 12000 PDF files<\/a> using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/ya_eps_overview.htm\">Easy PDF Search<\/a>, and he gets his search results in less than 20 seconds.<\/p>\n<h3>Search multiple words simultaneously<\/h3>\n<p>Search for multiple words simultaneously.\u00a0 Why waste time searching the same files for different words?\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/ya_eps_overview.htm\">Easy PDF Search<\/a> lets you search for as many words or phrases as you require.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/multipdf01.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"471\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/multipdf01.png 471w, https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/multipdf01-300x103.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Quickly see where your words were found<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/ya_eps_overview.htm\">Easy PDF Search<\/a> doesn&#8217;t just tell you which files your words were found in, it tells you exactly which page you can find the words in, and the frequency of the words on each page and the entire file.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1227\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/multipdf02.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/multipdf02.png 446w, https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/multipdf02-263x300.png 263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the integrated PDF viewer, <strong>all<\/strong> your words are highlighted on each page.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1228\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/multipdf03.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"587\" height=\"644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/multipdf03.png 587w, https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/multipdf03-273x300.png 273w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>View results from past searches<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/ya_eps_overview.htm\">Easy PDF Search<\/a> maintains a search history of the words you searched for and also of the search results.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1229\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/multipdf04.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"891\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/multipdf04.png 891w, https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/multipdf04-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/multipdf04-768x430.png 768w, https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/multipdf04-624x349.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 891px) 100vw, 891px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This means you can easily view the search results from past searches <strong>without having to reperform the search<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>By now, you can see that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/ya_eps_overview.htm\">Easy PDF Search<\/a> is designed to save you time and help you search for text in multiple PDF files fast and easily.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the above, there is a lot more you can do with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/ya_eps_overview.htm\">Easy PDF Search<\/a> like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>merge all the pages from the search results into a single PDF file<\/li>\n<li>copy all the files in the search results<\/li>\n<li>extract text from the pages where the words were found in<\/li>\n<li>perform proximity searches e.g. <strong>NEAR (authorities &#8220;homeland security&#8221;, 20)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>perform exclusion searches e.g. <strong>monitoring NOT daily<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>search PDF annotations and file attributes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/downloads\/easypdfsearch\/EasyPDFSearchSetup.zip\">Download<\/a> a 14-day trial of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/ya_eps_overview.htm\">Easy PDF Search<\/a> and 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