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I use recoll to index and search thousands of pdfs. Because I always have the author name in the filename I can filter queries like this: Cybernetics OR steeri
by nanna 2y ago
I use recoll to index and search thousands of pdfs. Because I always have the author name in the filename I can filter queries like this:
Cybernetics OR steering filename:Heidegger ext:pdf
It's an absolute power tool.
- nickpsecurity 2y agoI do it like this: Title Year Author Name.pdf Same benefits as you mentioned. You can also filter by time that way.
- nanna 2y agoMy way is to do year__author1_author2_author-n~~title-of-book~subtitle##tag1#tag-2#tagn.pdf This means that files are automatically organised by year of publication,that I can search by tag name, and that I dont have to escape chars in the terminal. One day I hope to get round to building an Emacs mode to filter by the different elements.
- donio 2y agoIf your PDFs have Author properties then you might be able to do "author:Heidegger" too. The Recoll PDF filter extracts some of these fields and if I remember right it can be configured to extract additional custom properties too.
- nanna 2y agoThat would be great, however most of my pdfs don't have the author property set.