How to find PDF documents without a specified language?

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Jensen Head
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How to find PDF documents without a specified language?

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Since the Language column in Windows File Explorer does not correspond to the same-name meta tag in PDF, it is currently difficult to find documents with a specific language, or without a specified language. At least with a large number of documents or with a large size.

Please consider adding this field to the PDF-XChange File Explorer add-on utility (PDF-XChange Shell Extensions), or adding a search parameter to the advanced document search (with the ability to search for a specific language in the list of languages ​​installed for a document or documents without an installed language).
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Re: How to find PDF documents without a specified language?

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Hello, Jensen Head

Thank you for the suggestion, I have passed this along to the Dev team for review, but as usual, I cannot make any promises until I have heard back from them.

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At the very least, they are committed to investigating if this is possible, and we have a ticket for it now:

RT#7469: FR: shell ext - Add language metadata

Kind regards,
Dan McIntyre - Support Technician
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