Spotlight/DevonSphere Express search inside Scrivener files

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I have started using Scrivener for legal writing. I often have the same issues repeatedly come up in cases. If I have imported my research (PDFs of cases) into Scrivener, will Spotlight and/or DevonSphere Express index those PDFs? For example, the brief I am writing now addresses the issue of “intoxication during a guilty plea”. Will the cases be indexed so if I enter that term into either Spotlight or DevonSphere Express I will get a result for cases imported into my Scrivener research folders that match that search?

Thanks,

Andy

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Hi Andy,

Yes, as long as the PDF files contain text, Scrivener will index that text for Spotlight. (It can only index text recognised as such by the PDF document - scanned-in PDF documents usually won’t work because they are really just images of the text.)

Hope that helps.

All the best,
Keith