I have a whole bunch of journals on my laptop and I know there is a bit somewhere in one of them that I need to reference. Thing is, I can't remember where.
Is there a way of searching or full text indexing pdfs so I can find it? Have had a quick google, but looking for an answer in english not binary.
don't spose 'get a mac' helps does it?
Adobe IFilter allows you to search contents of pdfs not used it myself
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2611
The most simple way is to click "Search" at the top of your Explorer window, choose "All Files and Folders" and enter the text you're searching for in "A word or phrase in the file:".
Don't see why you'd need to get a Mac?
Install Google Desktop. It takes a few hours to index everything, but it's very useful threafter. It takes about 20% of your document space to build the index, so don't do it on a full disk.
As an alternative, Copernic is very nice, but the free version won't index all parts of Outlook.
(PS What type of journals?)
tomalsop - tried that, its not powerful enough.
Moses - someone else suggested that, I'll give it a try.
Type of journals - what do you mean? PDF files, or subject?
Subject. I'm interested in journal search as a general topic.
well, Energy-from-Waste is the overall topic.