{"id":2100,"date":"2009-06-20T14:43:04","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T14:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=2100"},"modified":"2009-06-20T14:43:04","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T14:43:04","slug":"outwit-docs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2009\/06\/20\/outwit-docs\/","title":{"rendered":"OutWit Docs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever wanted to rip all<\/em> the PDF and DOC files from a focussed Google or Google Scholar search, quickly save them all to a folder, index them with something powerful like dtSearch<\/a>, and then search the real<\/em> full-text from across all of them — rather than whatever bits the Googlebot indexed as it swept past, and whatever bits the Google Search ran its search from?<\/p>\n

Or archive the entire run of a PDF ejournal that’s sitting at site:www.our-ejournal\/articles\/ ?<\/p>\n

The new free OutWit Docs<\/a> Firefox plugin does that, and works with the latest version of Firefox. There’s one major drawback — it hijacks the space right next to your browser’s Home icon, with a naff shiny 3D-stylee icon… <\/p>\n

\"ugly\"<\/p>\n

Unacceptable. It can however be moved after a bit of fiddling (Right-click, ‘customize’, and drag it out<\/em>) and then placed somewhere a little more suitable and out-of-sight.<\/p>\n

When using it, though, you also quickly come to appreciate why people should name their academic PDF files something_meaningful.pdf<\/em> rather than xy2f6fjg00.pdf<\/em>  And why filenames should have year rather than month first…<\/p>\n

\"pdfnames\"<\/p>\n

As a severe test of what after all is a mere 0.1.0.20 app, it took 9 minutes to whisk through 90 years worth of Field Artillery<\/em> journal (1911-2007), running from a Google search of site:sill-www.army.mil\/FAMAG\/ , to find 800Mb in 996 PDF files, and to then start to download them. This was, of course, the point at which I wanted OutWit to have a big red STOP button, although quitting the app did the trick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever wanted to rip all the PDF and DOC files from a focussed Google or Google Scholar search, …<\/p>\n

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