When I do a search in Windows Explorer (Windows10) in a directory with many PDF documents I get the results giving me in the first column the file name and in the second column the path and a a preview of part of the content. When I hover over the content part more information is shown on the content.
I suppose this means the content of the PDF files is somehow indexed.
I would now like to export this content information from the search result (including or not the path and filename) to a text file or xls.
I would like to export the content information for all files in the search in one go.
Is it possible to do this from Windows explorer or in some other way?
Best Answer
zef,
If want copy all PDF documents content to a TXT file you can use this:
Via command line, open
cmd.exe
and type:your_folder/new-files/
and rename to.txt
Reference:
If want just a list of your results:
(Ctrl + A)
"Copy as Path"
(this option only shows up when you hold shift before the right click)The results will be formatted as:
"\path\to\first\item"
"\path\to\second\item"
Via command line, open
cmd.exe
and type:dir C:\Users\zef\Documents\*.pdf" /s /b > result.txt
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