Boolean search in Editor?

[Smiley]

I have a large library of pdfs in multiple subfolders that I would like to be able to search for multiple words which are not necessarily in a phrase in the document. I've been using the deprecated Viewer to search for a long time, as I really appreciate the way it gives me a full page preview of the context in which the search word or phrase is being used. I have increasing need to be able to search using Boolean operators (AND or OR or NOT) so that I can find documents which include, for example, "material" and "supplementary" in the same document, though they are unlikely to be written as a phrase. I found a post from last year (https://www.pdf-xchange.com/forum3 ... ean#p97136) that suggested that boolean search might be integrated into Editor. Can anyone advise if that has been incorporated into current releases of Editor?

[Radi - PDF-XChange]

Hi Smiley,

Thanks for you post.

Unfortunately we do not have a boolean search for the moment. However, you can try using our proximity search to adjust the search results.
To do this, please search from the Search pane inside the Editor (Ctrl+Shift+F), click on the Options button -> Proximity and choose one of the options available. You can set the proximity to Adjacent words, words from the same Paragraph, Page or Document.

You can also search multiple documents and whole folders from the advanced search.

Regards,
Radi

[bob_pinoplastovskiy]

Is this functionality still not available? Checked now in free version of PDF XChange by searching for "phrase 1" | "phrase2" that both appear in document and it didn't work.

[Willy Van Nuffel]

Hello,

In the Search pane, you have different fields available for search:
- all of these words = mutual relationship between words is AND (in your example : "phrase 1" "phrase 2" )
- this exact phrase = chain of words
- any of these words = mutual relationship between words is OR
- none of these words = if one or more of these words are present in the text, the PDF will not be selected

You also have the "Options..."-button, where you can specify in which components of the PDF that you like to search
- be sure to also verify the "Proximity"-options

Does that help ?

Kind regards.
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PDF-XChange Editor - Search pane.png

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello, Willy Van Nuffel

Thank you for the helpful highlight of the search functions.
Hopefully this is what Bob was looking for.

Kind regards,

[bob_pinoplastovskiy]

Thanks so much for the explanation! Yes, this is exactly what I was looking for.

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]