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EN Searches Notes and PDFs differently?

Started by jeffoz1, Jul 28 2012 08:32 AM
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#1 jeffoz1

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Posted 28 July 2012 - 08:32 AM

In client If I search for eg.

ent

Notes with the word document are not picked up but those with entertain are and highlighted.

However notes which are PDFs (and OCR'd) containing either word are picked up and the search letters highlighted.

If I search for:

"document" (ie. with quotes) it will only pick up whole words only. However the words in the PDF notes are not highlighted.

Have I got this right? If so the search filter obviously works differently for native notes versus PDFs.

Is there any way to pick up letter combinations in native notes that occur anywhere withing words the way it automatically seems to work with PDF notes?

Thanks
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#2 Owyn

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Posted 28 July 2012 - 09:37 AM

Hmmm. Testing...
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Posted 28 July 2012 - 10:15 AM

Jeff,
what you are describing is correct.
"Normal" search (notes) does not find words in the middle or end, i.e. the "ent" in "document" will not be found.
It will be found in pdf documents. Probably has to do with different search algorithms for notes and pdfs.
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Posted 28 July 2012 - 08:53 PM

Jeff,
what you are describing is correct.
"Normal" search (notes) does not find words in the middle or end, i.e. the "ent" in "document" will not be found.
It will be found in pdf documents. Probably has to do with different search algorithms for notes and pdfs.
Wern


So search for text in a Note works differently than in a PDF attached file.
I really can't believe this. Who can possibly keep track of all these search rules???

This is just one more of many Search bugs and inconsistencies that make it very hard to use, and minimize its value. This is getting close to pre-Alzheimer condition for Evernote.
Please add Features Missing in EN Mac that are in EN Win.

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Posted 29 July 2012 - 11:50 PM

Due to the immense value that most EN users put on being able to store PDFs and search them along with native notes, isn't it reasonable that the two algorithms be aligned. Why would EN have a different algorithm for PDFs in the first place? Is this a feature we should request?
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