HCHTech
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I hate these kinds of questions. I have a small office on Sharepoint. The owner sometimes accesses files from an iPad, and using the PDF Expert app can search through large PDF files (think dozens up to hundreds of pages) for content. This is a surprisingly quick process. I watched him search through a 200-page PDF for someone's name, and it only took a few seconds.
When trying to do this same job from a PC using Adobe Acrobat Standard, it is a much, much slower process. Even though the PC has the file synced so it's local, you can see the pages tick by one-by-one in the status bar as the search proceeds, 1 page every 4 or 5 seconds. The computers resources aren't pegged, so the OCR-ing process Adobe is doing must be the bottleneck. Clearing the search cache doesn't seem to help, and manually doing the "embedded search index" thing for every file they want to search isn't practical.
Has anyone had experience with some other Windows program for searching within PDFs that might be faster? I already suggested "Well, then you should get your workers iPads", but they're not quite ready to do that, of course.
When trying to do this same job from a PC using Adobe Acrobat Standard, it is a much, much slower process. Even though the PC has the file synced so it's local, you can see the pages tick by one-by-one in the status bar as the search proceeds, 1 page every 4 or 5 seconds. The computers resources aren't pegged, so the OCR-ing process Adobe is doing must be the bottleneck. Clearing the search cache doesn't seem to help, and manually doing the "embedded search index" thing for every file they want to search isn't practical.
Has anyone had experience with some other Windows program for searching within PDFs that might be faster? I already suggested "Well, then you should get your workers iPads", but they're not quite ready to do that, of course.
