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Re: how to find all non searchable pdf [message #1206 is a reply to message #1205] Wed, 05 May 2021 09:51 Go to previous message
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Option-click on a found file (or use the "display type: plain text" popup menu in the toolbar) to show the text that has been extracted and indexed. This should help to understand why some files are found when you think they should not, and vice versa. Also, this will show some metadata that you can target with an additional condition, for example:
[then apply advanced filter] [other metadata] [contains one of the strings / does not contain any of the strings] [√ ignore case, √ ignore accents, √ multiple strings] [SomeScannerBrand—SomeAppSignature—etc]

(use the "em-dash" character, and not the classical -, to separate strings, i.e. shift-option-dash on a qwerty keyboard, or option-dash on some other keyboards)


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