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Calibre has tons of plugins, but what I really miss is full text search for all my books (mainly pdf and DJVU). Is this implemented, is there a plugin available? I can only find feature requests that are years old and unfixed launchpad bugs. If full text search is not available, are there any alternatives that do provide this?

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I think the best place to look or ask would be here; (mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=166) This is a forum just for Calibre. – lqlarry Nov 8 '11 at 19:49

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Unfortunately Calibre does not have full-fext (Context) search for now. It's on the TODO list, but it will be a while before it is implemented (it's rather low down on that list).

As for me in addition to Calibre you can use DocFetcher for Full Text (context) Search in Calibre's Library folder. It is working as axpected on Windows for me.

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Try Recoll. It's listed in Synaptic

Another possibility based on same xapian engine is Pinot which offers automatic folder monitoring (indexing), unlike Recoll manual re-indexing

Both index (and offer full-text search) PDF and DjVu if pdftotext and djvutext are found on system

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Can Calibre support third party Fulltext Search Engine to be integrated with it? – user52587 Mar 29 '12 at 14:18

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