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by mtone 2488 days ago
Using Acrobat DC, searching for content in all PDFs in a folder takes ages. It is both slow AND single-threaded, the disk is barely moving.

Tried with Foxit and a few others, same thing. I had to seek indexed search apps, and those are few and far between and generally poor quality - kudos to Recoll[1] as the standout so far. But I'd much rather just search within the reader.

Anyway, it's infuriating, this should go about x times as fast as there are cores.

[1]: https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/