Search Within a Document

The Viewer panel contains a search bar that allows you to search within a single document.

How to Use Document Search

To search within a document:

1. Open the Viewer panel.

2. In the toolbar, type a keyword or phrase into the Document search box and hit Enter to run the search.

The query is applied to the text of the document and its metadata. The hits are highlighted in the document and in the Metadata panel. To jump between the hits, use the previous and next arrows, located to the right of the Document search box.

Tip: Document search highlighting must be enabled for the terms to be highlighted in the respective view. See: Adjust Viewer Highlighting

Tip: In Near Native, Redaction and Productions view, click , located to the right of the Document search box, to access a search results overview that displays hits in context. You can then click on any row of the overview to jump directly to that hit.

How Document Search Works in the Different Document Views

Document search in Text, Near Native and Productions (Text/OCR) view works in the same way as the search in the Results list. Only document search in Redaction view is different, due to the special technology required for Redaction view display.

Tip: If you wonder why a document was found via the search in the Results list, but the respective item is not highlighted in Redaction view, look at the Text view.

Document search settings are kept when you switch between documents or between views.

It may happen that a search created in Near Native, Productions or Text view is incompatible with Redaction view and vice versa. For example, the wildcards * and ? do not work for a search in Redaction view.

The list below describes the main differences between using Document search in Text, Near Native or Production view versus Redaction view:

OR Search

OR is the connector in Text, Near Native or Productions view.

| (pipe) is the connector in Redaction view.

Text, Near Native, Productions view etc.	Redaction view	Finds
Bob OR Steve	Bob | Steve	All occurrences of Bob and Steve

Partial Matches

In Text, Near Native or Production view, the default case is the search for complete words.

In Redaction view, partial matches are found by default. You can select Whole word only in the drop-down list next to the search box to exclude these partial matches.

Text, Near Native, Productions view etc.	Redaction view	Finds
car	car (+Whole word only)	car
car*	car	car, cars, carriage

Search for Numbers

In Text, Near Native or Productions view, a number is only highlighted if it is an exact match, for example, a search for 15 hits only on 15.

Note: In the Metadata fly-in, numbers are only highlighted if they are found in plain text. Numbers in numeric or date fields are not highlighted.

In Redaction view, the number will be a hit even if it is part of another number, for example, a search for 15 will also return 2015. To find exactly 15, use the Whole word only option.

Text, Near Native, Productions view etc.	Redaction view	Finds
15	15 (+Whole word only)	15
	15	15, 2015

Regular Expressions

Only in Redaction view, you can select Regular expression from the drop-down list next to the Document search box.

This gives you a granular control, allowing to run searches like ?arriage which will find both marriage and carriage. Also, the regular expression can search for a sequence of words.

In Text, Near Native or Productions view, introduce regular expressions with regex. These views only allow regular expressions for a single word (see Regular Expressions).

Text, Near Native, Productions view etc.	Redaction view	Finds
regex global*y*	global*y* (+Regular expression)	global, globally
Multi-word regular expression not possible	global*y* warming(+Regular expression)	global warming, globally warming

Search Modes

Text, Near Native or Productions view support all search modes. The default search mode is exact match mode. To use another search mode, add the respective character, for example, # for stem mode (see: Search Mode Operators).

Redaction view only offers exact match search.

Exact match search

Text, Near Native, Productions view etc.	Redaction view	Finds
car or +car	car (+Whole word only)	car

 

Related:

Document Viewer Highlighting

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