Talking to Shane McEvey and seeing how he used Adobe Acrobat Pro to search through 1000’s of PDFs, and Adobe Bridge to search through notes and images, it’s clear that being able to find stuff is still incredibly important. Having unrestricted access to full text (e.g., a private PDF collection) is a huge asset, one that simple metadata based searching can’t compete with.
Talking to Shane McEvey and seeing how he used Adobe Acrobat Pro to search through 1000’s of PDFs, and Adobe Bridge to search through notes and images, it’s clear that being able to find stuff is still incredibly important. Having unrestricted access to full text (e.g., a private PDF collection) is a huge asset, one that simple metadata based searching can’t compete with.