Search in PDF?

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hello,
I have been searching for so long now and can’t find a solution.
I would like to search pdf for text.

so far I have not found a plugin.
omnisearch does not work!

is there a way to search for text in pdf
and then display it?

thanks already

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I am working on a MacBook Air (macOS 12.6 Monterey). I also have Devonthink which comes with Optical Character Recognition. It scans PDF documents and creates a mini file version with the text so the pdf contents can be searched. Look for OCR for you operating system. you will then be able to search.

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Omnisearch dev here. The PDF feature is currently in beta, and is an opt-in setting. It’s still a work-in-progress, and you can install it through BRAT. Warning though: when I say “beta”, I mean it: you might encounter some bugs or freezes :slight_smile:

The current version does not use OCR, it simply tries to extract the text (and does it more or less correctly).

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This sounds very good and I am very excited :slight_smile:

can you already say when it will be officially released ?
something like this?
I know, development always takes time and costs nerves and especially time :slight_smile:

with text it is completely sufficient

thanks for the development

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hello, i don’t want to use an external program. i will be happy when the development for the pdf search plugin is done :slight_smile:

now i help myself with the plugin “Obsidian Topic Linking Plugin” - the workaround is not so good, but it works for now.

run command to convert the pdf to markdown
then you can search normally …
the plugin creates notes and at the top is then the link to the pdf…

it is first of all a possibility … i don’t think there is a better one yet…
many greetings

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Thanks :slight_smile:

I had to do more work than initially thought, so I’m planning for a release early November. No hard promise though :stuck_out_tongue:

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