As mentioned in the community, a reason for keeping stuff in Evernote is the ability to search for text in images and in PDF documents. It’s a great function which makes Evernote very hard to let go. If I had to pick one of them, I would go for PDF search, which I guess is less complicated to implem…

I don’t use this often, but when I need it, I need it bad… :wink:

[image] Lars_Kristian_Aasbrenn: the ability to search for text in images and in PDF documents. We get around this limitation with a home-grown system that was patterned after this approach . Using a custom Pack we were able to use the S3 repository as the definitive source of all PDF-based inf…

Fun to hear there are ways around, as often Coda people find. Though, this is a bit above me, sorry :slight_smile:

[image] Lars_Kristian_Aasbrenn: this is a bit above me Indeed; it’s a lot of machinery. You might want to take a look at Bardeen . I think they recently added some AI features that would allow you to capture summaries and keywords from a PDF and then add it to a Coda table. Don’t let the labe…

[image] Patricia_Hoffmann: It would be awesome to have this feature! Something about this says it will likely be made obsolete with multi-modal AI support.

Have you found an easy solution so far? My used case is the following: I have a table with lots of PDFs. I want to search within the PDFs for certain keywords to find the PDFs that contain those keywords.

@coda_account Is there anything planned/in the development pipeline that will allow to search within a PDF or rather do a global keyword search on a table with many pdf files?

There are two ways text can exist in PDF’s: As real text and images of text. For real text there is a kind of work-around by addling all PDF’s to a table, then: Make a Text column: “Content”, Open PDF, copy all text (select all+copy), paste in into Content.

This always has to be done manually though, right? There is no way to automize that the text of a PDF will automatically be pasted into a column, like “Content” or?

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Patricia_Hoffmann May 9, 2023, 12:01pm 6

OMG! It would be awesome to have this feature! I voted for it

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