{"id":794,"date":"2020-06-08T15:54:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T07:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/?p=794"},"modified":"2020-06-14T20:43:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T12:43:42","slug":"difference-between-search-functions-in-easy-pdf-search-and-easy-pdf-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/2020\/06\/08\/difference-between-search-functions-in-easy-pdf-search-and-easy-pdf-explorer\/","title":{"rendered":"Difference between search functions in Easy PDF Search and Easy PDF Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/ya_eps_overview.htm\">Easy PDF Search<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/ya_epe_overview.htm\">Easy PDF Explorer<\/a> both offer search functions, but they differ in how they work.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>indexed and non-indexed search<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">When you first search a file in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/ya_eps_overview.htm\">Easy PDF Search<\/a>, it indexes the contents of the file so that subsequent searches are completed much faster.\u00a0 New and modified files are also automatically indexed when needed.\u00a0 In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/ya_epe_overview.htm\">Easy PDF Explorer<\/a>, the search is performed by opening each file and searching each page every time.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>storage requirements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/ya_eps_overview.htm\">Easy PDF Search<\/a> indexes the contents of your files, it needs additional storage to store the indexes.\u00a0 The trade-off is your searches are completed much faster compared to if your files were not indexed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>search operators<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">When you search for a phrase like<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>transactional explication<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/ya_epe_overview.htm\">Easy PDF Explorer<\/a>, it will return only files containing pages which contain the exact phrase.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/ya_eps_overview.htm\">Easy PDF Search<\/a> will instead return all files containing the words <strong>transactional<\/strong> or <strong>replication<\/strong> anywhere in the file, but both words must exist in the file.\u00a0 You can add more words e.g.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\ntransactional replication monitoring<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">in which case only files containing all 3 words are returned.To return all files containing either or some or all of the words, you can use the OR operator e.g.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>transactional OR replication OR monitoring<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">You can even exclude files containing specific words or phrases.\u00a0 For e.g. to return all files containing the word transactional replication but not monitoring, enter<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8220;transactional replication&#8221; NOT monitoring<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">You can refine your search phrases as much as you want using the operators and parentheses e.g.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>(&#8220;transactional replication&#8221; OR &#8220;full backups&#8221;) NOT monitoring<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">To return only files containing a specific phrase, you would enter the phrase enclosed in double quotes i.e.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8220;transactional replication&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>proximity searches<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/ya_eps_overview.htm\">Easy PDF Search<\/a> can perform proximity searches using the NEAR function.\u00a0 For e.g. entering<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>NEAR(transactional replication,20)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">will return all files containing pages where the words transactional and replication appear within 20 words of each other.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>wildcard searches<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/ya_epe_overview.htm\">Easy PDF Explorer<\/a> allows you to search for fragments of a word e.g. searching fortorcan return torn, monitor, or story.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/ya_eps_overview.htm\">Easy PDF Search<\/a> works by searching entire words, and it can only perform prefix searches e.g.tor*will return torn.\u00a0 It does not allow suffix or wildcard searches e.g. *tor or *tor*.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>searching annotations and attributes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/ya_eps_overview.htm\">Easy PDF Search<\/a>, you can search the values of annotations and file attributes e.g. the annotation author, the PDF author etc.\u00a0 You can use wildcard searches when searching annotations and attributes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/2020\/06\/08\/difference-between-search-functions-in-easy-pdf-search-and-easy-pdf-explorer\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button  \" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/2020\/06\/08\/difference-between-search-functions-in-easy-pdf-search-and-easy-pdf-explorer\/\" data-type=\"button\" data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easy PDF Search and Easy PDF Explorer both offer search functions, but they differ in how they work. indexed and non-indexed search When you first search a file in Easy PDF Search, it indexes the contents of the file so that subsequent searches are completed much faster.\u00a0 New and modified files are also automatically indexed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[53,112],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":872,"href":"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}