If you are an academic, do you use anything for text indexing to make subsequent searching easier (either over PDFs or some corpus you're working with?)
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Replying to @generativist
Does using latex count?
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Replying to @COmpMathematics
Maybe? More like over a much larger set of documents though
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Replying to @generativist
Hmm. Not quite sure i understand. Would the objective be to find a phrase or something in a folder full of pdfs?
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Replying to @COmpMathematics
More like that, yes. I never really had anything more sophisticated for that than spotlight search. And for analyzing documents and such, I tended to load things into memory and just search in jupyter.
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Replying to @generativist
Oh oh oh. have you tried ripgrep? cd into the directory of docs rg “phrase” All matches with line numbers will show up in a blink of an eye. Fastest search out there, makes spotlight look like a joke. If you want to save matches to file, use “> outfile.txt” at the end.
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Replying to @COmpMathematics
I'm a silver_searcher user (and generally store my notes in .ipynb so it's really useful), but maybe I'll have to check it out considering this benchmark, thanks!pic.twitter.com/pm6aXxP2kx
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Replying to @generativist
Ah. You may appreciate fuzzyfinder as well, adds some great interactivity and i use it with ripgrep to create shortcuts like “fif” (find in file). Best of luck!
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