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Can you point me to the as-you-type full-text search on Mac for a directory transitively containing 20,000 pdfs?
by anonymoushn 6y ago
Can you point me to the as-you-type full-text search on Mac for a directory transitively containing 20,000 pdfs?
- salutis 6y agoI use Apple’s built-in Spotlight search to search in Markdown files and PDF documents, albeit I do not have 20,000 of them. Would it be a problem for Spotlight to index 20,000 PDF documents?
- ben509 6y agoSure, Spotlight has been around for at least a decade; it's the little magnifying glass at the right end of the main menubar. It definitely indexes PDFs with a text layer as well as other document formats; I've been running them through OCR for ages and have 28,000 in my records. You can also install extensions for other formats. It indexes your whole disk; if there's a limit as to how many files it will index, I've yet to reach it. I checked Apple's developer documentation, and they don't mention one.