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That's where these other app suggestions come in, like Houdah, Yep, and again DevonThink. It won't show you where the word is used in the document (your contextual paragraph request). Once you get your documents OCRd, you're right to say Spotlight will only show you a list of documents with those words.

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So, if you ever take the PDF out of Evernote, it's still not searchable. Rather, it saves the text to its own database. Evernote also does this, but it doesn't save the text to the file.

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But there are plenty of other apps that do this, like ABBYY FineReader, DevonThink (I think the Pro version only). We will keep you posted about HoudahSpot beta releases. Subscribe & Download You will be emailed the download link. HoudahSpot is a powerful file search tool. HoudahSpot 6.1 is fully compatible with macOS 12 Monterey. It uses the existing Spotlight index for ultra-fast file searches. Some apps (especially in the Windows world) require you to save a copy of the exported PDF, which is a real pain. HoudahSpot 6.1 requires macOS 10.14 or later with Spotlight indexing enabled. HoudahSpot is a powerful, versatile, and highly customizable file search tool for Mac. I also like that PDFPenPro simply modifies the existing PDF and adds the text to it. The Pro version has a batch command that lets you OCR hundreds of PDFs in a row. Personally, I use PDFPenPro to OCR my textless PDFs. It takes the guesswork out of Spotlight searches and helps you find files hidden deep in the haystack of files accumulated over the years. If that text layer isn't there, there's nothing Spotlight can do for you. HoudahSpot is a powerful file search tool. That's what Spotlight can find and index. We have covered HoudahSpot in the past so this screencast from Todd focuses on the updates that version 6 brings to the search party. When PDFs are searchable, it means that, hidden in the PDF is the equivalent of a text file that is a layer underneath the image on each page. In-depth user guides for HoudahSpot and HoudahGeo can be accessed from the Help menu in these applications. HoudahSpot is an application that allows you to do refined searches to get just the files you are looking for and includes several useful presets right out of the box. It supports search templates which allows me to define regular search types instead of typing up repetitive searches. There is almost nothing that cannot be search in an easy to use interface.

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When you say that Spotlight doesn't find any PDFs when you search for 'USB C' that means there is no searchable text inside the PDF. HoudahSpot with a sample search.(Click for a full size image) As you can see, you can search in the text or the name, or in your email. The creator of the PDF has to make the PDF searchable, and if that doesn't happen, then you have to use OCR software to scan each page of the PDF to 'find' the text and add it to the PDF. The first is that not all PDFs show up on your Mac as searchable.

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