SUMMARY I wish there would be an advanced search option - searching several words (strings) at a time. Adobe has it by the name "match any of the words" as explained here: https://superuser.com/questions/843309/can-i-somehow-search-few-words-at-the-same-timealternative-in-foxit-reader-or. Regular(standard) search would acquire searching for example: "dog", viewing results, then "cat", viewing results, then "monkey"... - which would mean when inspecting results you wold have to go through entire file 3 times. I wish to input a list of words (strings) "cat", "dog", "monkey", "baby lion", and as I go through results, one by one, have all of the matching strings displayed, requiring going trough entire file only once. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open a 100+ pages pdf file 2. Search for fairly common word in it 3. Inspect all the results 4. Search for another fairly common word 5. Inspect all the results 6. repeat step 4., 5. and 6. OBSERVED RESULT You are required to go trough entire file as many times as there are words/strings you wish to find. EXPECTED RESULT When in search for multiple strings occurrences having to go trough file only once. Having all the results displayed in order they occur in file. For example "dog", "cat", "dog", "baby lion", "cat", "monkey"... SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: - MacOS: - Linux/KDE Plasma: (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: KDE Frameworks Version: Qt Version:
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Or you could use the thumbnail search feature that has exactly what you want
My bad, I should have put in more effort to find it. I'm using it now and it is awesome. I'm sorry for the false alarm and thank you very much for Your answer. It is not something I need right now, but could I make it work in case of "baby lion", "baby zebra"? I went through Okular Handbook (https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kdegraphics/okular/okular.pdf) real quick and haven't find any information on Thumbnail search, perhaps I missed it, but in my opinion this could go under Advanced Features- but now I am no longer sure if I've missed this feature in all or some of other Linux PDF readers I've checked as well (in search of this particular feature), or they are relay not offering it :| Thank you once again, I'm really happy it turned out my favorite PDF reader already has this feature :)
What you are suggesting is a new method of search for multiple groups of strings at the same time, that'd be doable i guess, but don't see myself implementing it. You may want to open a new wish describing it in case someone has time to work on it.