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How can I increase the speed , I need it to be lightning fast because I search on average for 300 terms daily and the difference between split second and 7 seconds is huge.
I moved my PDFs to ssd and that helped a bit but I am still not satisfied.

what can I do ?

P.S by Big I mean 1000+ PDFs       

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How can I increase the speed , I need it to be lightning fast because I search on average for 300 terms daily and the difference between split second and 7 seconds is huge.

I moved my PDFs to ssd and that helped a bit but I am still not satisfied.

what can I do ?

P.S by Big I mean 1000+ PDFs       

What PDF reader do you use?





 
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Adobe Reader XI

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I am trying to embed index but I can't :/
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I'd recommend using something like PDF2Text (it's a Linux utility, unsure if there's a Windows port)

 

Would allow you to do something like:

 

pdf2text somefile.pdf | grep "Some string here"

 

Very fast searching.

--Neil Hanlon

Operations Engineer

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Create a ramdisk and copy the pdf to it?

thanks! I indexed the PDFs and added them to ram disk, it's amazing :D

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thanks! I indexed the PDFs and added them to ram disk, it's amazing :D

Sweet! :D

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