+1 for text search of PDFs. This is a very important feature for me.
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+1 for full text search
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Has this issue been resolved? Do we presently have full PDF search? When do you expect we will have it available as an integrated feature?
I am in my early dissertation process and have bounced around a few applications. Though I have paid for the year, I’m likely to abandon using Paperpile without this feature.
Thank you!
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As explained in more detailed in several other posts in this forum, we do not give any time estimates on upcoming features any more.
You already can search your PDFs either through the Google Drive web-app or if you have synced the PDFs to your hard-drive on Mac you can use Spotlight (and I’m sure there is an equivalent for Windows).
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Thanks for working on this. I’m down for joining betas (I was one of the original PaperPile beta testers) if you are looking for feedback on this feature. Otherwise I’ll wait for the official release.
Google should be somewhat embarrassed that you can’t restrict your Drive search to one folder. I think Drive used to be able to do that. Gmail still can, so this means that Google – the search company – has provided better search functionality in their email app than in their cloud storage. Go figure.
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I am sorry but this is really disappointing. It is hard for me to imagine a paid pdf reference manager that cant do full-text search… I dont know which sample of users your surveyed, but any person I know that reads academic papers seriously wants that feature… paperpile has plenty of potential but without that function I ll stick to mendeley…
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Any update on the issue ?
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See related topic with a tip for working around this issue [TIP] Work around lack of offline support, limited capabilities of mobile app, lack of PDF search
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Thank you Andrey, although of course it would be great to have all those directly in Ppp.
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+1 for this feature… any progress?
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Really frustrating to see no updates on this functionality for nearly 4 years …
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Full-text PDF search from within paperpile, please!
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This is a key feature, in my opinion, that is missing. Please add this!
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Absolutely crucial. In my experience this is the main limitation with Paperpile, which otherwise is a great piece of software.
I just bought an annual subscription, trusting that this critical feature will be added soon. Please don’t let us down!
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We are all suckers for continuing to pay for software that doesn’t get updated. The word plug i was promised in 2016. The joke is on us.
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This will never happen
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I’ve written some words on the progress of things in another thread. Improved search of all kind (your references, full-text of PDFs and external databases) is part of our long term strategy. Also Jirka posted a quick intro, he is our new database and backend engineer working on search infrastructure.
http://forum.paperpile.com/t/is-paperpile-development-dead/2897/19
http://forum.paperpile.com/t/is-paperpile-development-dead/2897/24
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I would like to see Full text search too
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I have been using pdf managers for some years. I was just about to start with Paperpile, when I found this thread. Full text searching is the most basic function for a researcher. While you have many other sexy projects underway, all pale in importance to basic text searching. I encourage you to do some focus groups with folks who use these products to better match your development priorities with the needs of your potential customers.
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