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I really love SumatraPDF but I wish it'd fare better on the search story: there's no widget to show all search matches, afaik, and searching can be slow on real
by davikr 3y ago
I really love SumatraPDF but I wish it'd fare better on the search story: there's no widget to show all search matches, afaik, and searching can be slow on really big files with thousands of pages.
To be fair, most PDF readers struggle with this, and I suspect only Acrobat attempts to cache or index files (as a Pro feature).
- mahdi7d1 3y agoI remember reading a blog post from the author of sioyek boasting about search performance. Haven't personally compared the options but for me sumatra zathura and sioyek all feel fast enough to not notice any problems. https://ahrm.github.io/jekyll/update/2022/09/11/pdf-viewer-text-search-benchmark.html https://ahrm.github.io/jekyll/update/2022/09/11/pdf-viewer-t... "Now I must admit, the reason sioyek is so fast is because it creates a search index when you open the document."
- davikr 3y agoAh, I had heard about Sioyek but I didn't know there was an option I could enable to build a search index. That is really nice.