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I really like the idea of building a PDF viewer for research papers. One feature that I don’t see mentioned that would convince me to use the product is fast s
by dfdz 5y ago
I really like the idea of building a PDF viewer for research papers.
One feature that I don’t see mentioned that would convince me to use the product is fast search (possibly after some pre computation)
When I’m reading a long technical document I often search for words/phrases to remember the definition
For some reason, this process is very slow for longer documents and take a couple seconds (various depending on pdf viewer
I’ve always wished this was fast. For example, if I’m going to be reading a paper for 1hr I wouldn’t mind if there computer spent the first minute building a data structure to enable faster lookup times
Does anyone know if a current pdf viewer has this feature
- hexomancer 5y agoI currently don't do any indexing for general search (though I do index the figures, references and equations when the book is first opened). But I do plan to index more things (like the definitions you mentioned) in the future. I think current search performance is better than other PDF viewers though (sub-second on a 500 page PDF on my 6700K CPU).
- liketochill 5y agoCheck out qiqqa or mendeley
- jpeloquin 5y ago> Does anyone know if a current pdf viewer has this feature If you mean search within a single PDF (not across PDFs), I've found PDF-XChange Editor (made by Tracker Software) to be fast, < 1 s to fully search a 600 page textbook. It also shows little lines in the scrollbar where the results are, like Chrome does.