Search within PDFs

Hi guys,

Excellent job you have done so far!

I thought I would request a useful feature. Word search within a PDF, is this something that you have on your future list of updates?

Best wishes,
D

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You mean search within attached PDFs? We currently donā€™t index these indeed, itā€™s something weā€™d like to do at some point but other things have a higher priority at the moment Iā€™m afraid.

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Iā€™m grateful that itā€™s even on your list. :blush:

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But you even donā€™t index the comment or ā€œfile nameā€ that I enter to any PDF. Canā€™t even search for this. :disappointed_relieved:

Good point, weā€™ll try to add that at an earlier point already.

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+1 to this one. Iā€™d like to search through PDF content attached to notes. Evernote does this really well, and I donā€™t need it quite as good as that but if I use an app like Notability or Goodnotes for example that produces a PDF with text extracted from my handwriting and I attach the PDF to a note Iā€™d like Agenda to search through those PDFs

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+1 here too. I just started using Agenda, but I canā€™t get rid of my premium everrnote subscription without this - I use PDFs in research and have to have them search-able. Thanks!

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I agree, PDF indexing is a must have.
OCR is also quite important, I switched from Bear to Notes.app after leaving Evernote because of this.

Isnā€™t this built in with the new vision API from Apple?

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Alas, some parts are built-in, others arenā€™t. Plus whatā€™s provided is very low level, so not exactly plug-and-play unfortunately. We will however look at this again when we get to our planned search-overhaul.

Another request for this, or has it been added since this thread is 3 years old?

Not yet available no, will be part of a larger search overhaul weā€™ll plan to happen in 2023

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hi any update on this? Thanks

Not at this point. We are busy with adding privacy features in Agenda 18 at this point. Will try to get to it in a future update. Sorry for the wait.

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I recognise that you have said this will be after v.18 but I just wanted to add my +1 for spotlight search within PDF files.

One solution for the immediate future would be to use Hookmark deep links for PDFs. It does a lot more than this and works great with Agenda.

Hook ā€“ Links beat searching

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+1 Using Kindle Scribe for notes, can send searchable PDF, canā€™t search yet in Agenda. Would be a good feature as I want to use Agenda as authoritative notebook. Search is important.

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Jumping in to throw a +1 for this much needed feature. OCR and documents/PDFs searchable is a huge plus.

Read there was a big ā€˜Searchā€™ overhaul planned for 2023. Has this feature been dropped or is still to come?

Asking because being I literally found Agenda and within maybe 2-3 days went all in because I loved what I briefly seen and would very much :heart: for Agenda be my one and only needed writing app.

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Search feature is in progress now, and due for release as Agenda 19. Will take this along. Thanks!

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Huge thank you for the response! So hyped to grow with Agenda, been building up my projects and notes like a lunatic and loving everything about Agenda!

Iā€™ve been using PDFPenPro for quite a while soā€¦For the adventurous Agenda users who have need for OCR of PDFs I ran across this post and thought it might be worth looking into for the meantime.