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quant
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Search speed

Post by quant »

It is a great feature to be able to find all occurrences of certain term. However the speed is questionable.

When I have the same document in pdf and djvu format, WinDjView finds all occurrencies in about 1/10 of the time it takes in pdf-xchange (eg. it takes 3 seconds as opposed to 30). Maybe it is in the representation of the text in OCR-ed djvu file, but the difference is tremendous.

Is there any way to increase the speed of the search?
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Post by Ivan - Tracker Software »

HI,

yes, you are right, the representation of the text in DjVu and PDF is very different, and to find text on a PDF page it is necessary to parse its content before, find all text entries and prepare continuous text for searching.

For example, in a PDF when two symbols are rendered side by side viually, in the page's content they can be located in entirely different places in the files source structure - So, it always requires some time and memory.
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