Bug 330189

Summary:	[Okular-devel] request feature to search multiple documents
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	kamp <kamp000x>
Component:	PDF backend	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	aacid, kamp000x, yurchor
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
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Description kamp 2014-01-20 09:00:30 UTC

It would be a helpful feature if it is possible to search multiple pdf
documents for a special string.

Now I can only search the current document, but if it is possible to
search multiple documents from (for example) one folder.

I know that there exist pdfgrep, but it would be nice to have it in a
gui, where I can switch to that position immediately.

Thanks.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Yuri Chornoivan 2014-01-20 10:03:35 UTC

Regardless to the internal Okular implementation, Nepomuk-webminer can index the paper collection, then usual Nepomuk search capabilities (in Dolphin or KRunner) can be used to find the needed document.

Some docs on Webminer:

http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-base/nepomuk-webminer/index.html

Comment 2 Albert Astals Cid 2014-01-20 19:07:04 UTC

Okular is not designed to be a "document database" or anything like that, it's a document viewer, so it searchs on the documents, adding such a feature doesn't make much sense from the current UI and workflow point of view.

Thanks for caring about Okular and suggesting this improvement.