Using Help
|
Contents
|
Index
Back
217
Adobe Acrobat Help
Searching and Indexing Document Collections
Using Help
|
Contents
|
Index
Back
217
high probability that the document contains your search term; an empty circle
indicates a low probability that the document contains your search term. When you
open a document in the list, you view only pages containing matches. All the matches
on a page are highlighted. When you use ordinary search text, the relevancy ranking
indicates how frequently the search word appears in the document.This means both in
absolute terms and relative to the number of other words in the document.
•
When you use a Boolean OR operator between two words or phrases in a search,
documents that contain both items have a higher relevancy ranking than documents
that contain just one item.
•
When you use the Proximity option, the closer the matches are within a document, the
higher the relevancy ranking of the document.
5
View the document by doing one of the following:
•
Select the document, and click the View button.
•
Double-click the document.
6
Click the Next Highlight button or the Previous Highlight button to go to other matches
in the document. You can also choose another document to view.
Relevancy ranking for search results
Advanced search techniques
You may need to perform searches using advanced criteria and special operators. If your
search returns too many matches, none, or information you don’t need, you can change
how Acrobat searches. This section covers refining, Word Assistant, options, and Boolean
operators.
If you want to keep the Search dialog box small, you can hide (or keep hidden) the
options and type in their names in the Find Results Containing Text box. Along with the
text box names, you need to use operators such as = (equals) and > (greater than). For the
options, type in /st (stemming), /so (sounds like), /th (thesaurus), /ca (match case), or /pr
(proximity).
Before you perform a search with one of these techniques, you can preview the type of
results you’ll receive using the Word Assistant. For more information, see
“Using Word
Assistant” on page 218
. Alternatively, you can redefine the query by typing new text in the
Acrobat Search dialog box or by using other techniques to expand the search to include
more documents or to limit the search to fewer documents. For more information, see
“Limiting searches” on page 221
.
Refining searches
If you want to narrow a search, you can refine or confine your search to documents listed
in a prior search. For example, you can first search for (and find) all documents by an
author, and then define a search query for that subset of documents.The result would be a
subset of documents that are authored by the specified author and that contain the
search string.
Low
High