Bug 399446 - Okular wishlist: Search term occurrences summary panel
Summary: Okular wishlist: Search term occurrences summary panel
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: okular
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Okular developers
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Reported: 2018-10-06 15:18 UTC by S
Modified: 2023-10-15 21:57 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Evince search term occurrences summary (239.41 KB, image/png)
2018-10-06 15:18 UTC, S
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Description S 2018-10-06 15:18:46 UTC
Created attachment 115449 [details]
Evince search term occurrences summary

Hi there, I practically live inside a PDF reader, so I have pretty strict requirements. I just switched to Plasma, and I'd like to use Okular, but it's missing a critical feature for me, a search pane that shows a summary of all the occurrences of a search term with a bit of context. I'm attaching an example from Evince, which does it perfectly. Thanks a lot for taking this into consideration!
Comment 1 Stefan Zurucker 2018-12-09 22:01:39 UTC
I would like to second this request! Thank you for your consideration.
Comment 2 Clarc 2020-10-25 09:41:33 UTC
I just wanted to post the same request, as it's an important one!


Here's my thoughts about it:
Feature Request: Use the sidebar in the search. Two Options:

1. When the user searches, create a fifth sidebar-tab that shows the page and roughly the environment of each found occurrence. (see Sidebar-Screenshot).

2. In the sidebar-tab titled "Contents", when the user searches for a term, the chapters that contain the search-term should get highlighted (yellow to keep it consistent)
In my opinion 4.2 seems more important; both could and maybe should be implemented at the same time though.