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Searching and Indexing Document Collections
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Expanding searches
If your search returns too few or no results, you may have to expand the search criteria.
Use the Search dialog box, and follow these general guidelines:
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Use wild-card characters in the search text to increase the number of matches for the
text.
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Use an asterisk (*) to match zero, one, or more characters; use a question mark (?) to
match any one character.
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Use wild-card characters in a term that is part of a Boolean expression.
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Use wild-card characters to specify Document Info text box values. However, you
cannot use wild-cards to represent separator characters such as the hyphen (-) and the
slash (/).
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Use Boolean expressions in Document Info text box values.
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Use a Boolean OR operator between two words to return documents containing either
word.
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Use the Sounds Like, Word Stemming, and Thesaurus options to increase the number of
matches for the text.
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Use a comma (,) or vertical bar (|) to separate items in an OR search.
Limiting searches
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Use a Boolean NOT operator before a word or search term to exclude documents
containing the word or search term.
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Use an exclamation point (!) as another way to specify a NOT search.
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Use a Boolean AND operator between two words to return only documents containing
both words.
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Use the Proximity option to limit AND searches. This specifies that words must be in
close proximity to each other—within three pages or fewer.
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Use the Match Case option to exactly match capitalization.
Indexing PDF Documents
You can use the Adobe Acrobat Catalog command to create a full-text index of your PDF
documents and document collections. A full-text index is a searchable database of all the
text in a document or set of documents. The following sections guide you through the
steps to create indexes.
Preparing and structuring document collections for
indexing
Before you index a document collection, you need to structure the documents on the disk
drive or network server volume, verify cross-platform filenames, complete the Document
Info fields, and develop collateral information. You can then set other options to help your
readers find the information they need.