I have been working on PDF search and felt it was time to share some enhancements and changes with you… Just over a month ago we announced the removal of the search option from the right click menu as it had become obsolete. In the up coming release the option will be completely removed (not just…
PDF search is a topic I have seen some very strange discussions on recently in several places so I felt a blog post would be useful. Firstly, you cannot generally do PDF search directly on a PDF document. You cannot just grep the file! There are FOUR reasons for this:- 1. The text content is…
Like Acrobat, JPedal has three different ways of searching PDF files. 1 Through the menu bar. 2.Through a external window. 3.Through a tab on the side panel. There are various reasons for using the different search input methods. 1. Menu Bar The menu bar contains a single text field with a drop down menu to…
In the interest of improving usability and maintainability of our PDF search code I have recently been creating a single PDF search method to replace the existing three. The idea is to have a single point to access the search which will call the different behaviours based on the various flags and values passed into…
