There used to be a great utility called X1 that let me search for words within all my saved pdfs, but it's not supported anymore...
I'm looking for suggestions for a program that will index all the words in my saved pdfs, so that as I type in a string of search terms (e.g. Smith Jones kinase protease solar system) all of the papers that contain those words will be displayed in a list and - this is the key part - those words will be highlighted in a view of the pdfs that appears next to the list. It was tremendously handy to scroll through that list and see the relevant page of the pdfs; made finding a figure or a certain paragraph easy!
What I'm not looking for is a keyword search or something that indexes titles and abstracts (like Papers) or a citation manager (like EndNote). Mendeley generates some kinds of list, but I've tested it and it misses a lot of papers that contain my search terms so I know it isn't indexing the full text. I think what I want is properly called a desktop search utility, but so far none of the ones I've checked out show the view of the pdf.
X1 and copernic desktop search is my favorite software for indexing my files
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