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I installed WDS a few days ago, after reading about it here. I just ran a couple of tests and can confirm that I can now find specific text strings in .pdf, .chm & .docx files. Search results are also returned instantaneously. Sure beats the heck out of the standard search tool built into Windows.
Still have a ways to go as far as indexing the 400 gigs of stored info I have here...
jan cohen
Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com> wrote: Gordon McLean wrote:
> AhAH!!!
>
> You failed to mention "text content" in your previous email, hence my
> confusion...
Oh no. I'm stunned by the idea that a desktop indexer would do anything
more than index text. Is it true? Your comment throws open the
floodgates--I'm now picturing desktop indexers that gather a relatively
dazzling array of deep information about disk files, URLs, and so on.
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