11.2.1 for Windows

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Create a full-text index for multiple PDFs
Foxit PDF Editor enables you to define a collection of PDFs as a catalog and create a
full-text index for the cataloged PDFs, allowing you to search that index through the
Advanced Search feature. See also Searching PDF indexes.
 Create a full-text index
1. Click File > Index > click the Full Text Index with Catalog button.
2. In the New Index Definition dialog box, input the index title and description.
3. (Optional) Click the Options… button next to the Index Description box to do more
settings.
A. Do not include numbers: If you don’t need to search for numbers in the
document, select this option to exclude all numbers in the document text
content from a PDF index, which can help make the search faster. If you change
the current setting, the new setting only applies to new indexes created
afterwards.
B. Do not warn for changed documents when searching: With this option
unselected, if you search an index after any of the indexed documents have
been changed, a message pops up when you click on the search results in the
Search panel. If you change the current setting, the new setting only applies
to new indexes created afterwards.
C. Custom Properties: This option allows you to include existing custom
document properties in the index. Click Custom Properties, and a dialog box
pops up. Then type the custom property, select a type and click Add. Repeat
the steps to add more custom properties. These properties will appear as
search options in the additional criteria in the Search panel so that you can
limit the search by specifying the properties when you search the index.
D. XMP Fields: This option allows you to include custom XMP fields in the index.
The custom XMP fields will also appear in the additional criteria in the Search
panel when you search the index.
E. Stop Words: Allows you to specify words that you want to be excluded from
the index search results. You can only add one stop word at a time. A stop
word is case sensitive and contains up to 128 characters. (Tip: In case users
trying to search strings that contain the stop words, you are recommended to
remind users of the stop words.)
F. Structure Tags: Use this option to make specific leaf-element tag nodes
searchable in tagged documents when you search the index.
Note: The settings above apply to the current index only. To apply these settings to all
indexes, please do the settings in File > Preferences > Index.