Comprehensive Keyword Search for Documents
Exhaustively searches documents for multiple keywords – reaching nested shapes, review comments, images, and vectorized graphics.
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Detects text within scanned PDFs, fillable forms, annotation textboxes and comments, vectorized graphics, and embedded images for PDF documents
Detects text within shapes, tables, native charts, presenter notes, review comments, and embedded images for PowerPoint and Word documents (including legacy .ppt and .doc) – requires Windows and MS Office
Recognizes notation differences for numbers
Supports multiple keywords and quoted phrases
Supports GUI and CLI mode
Searches spreadsheets and most raster image files
Searches text files per user specification of file extensions
File and folder names are always searched
PDF, spreadsheet, image, and text file searches supported on all platforms
Cite As
Maran Ma (2026). Comprehensive Keyword Search for Documents (https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/183624-comprehensive-keyword-search-for-documents), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .
General Information
- Version 1.2.1 (79.8 KB)
MATLAB Release Compatibility
- Compatible with R2020b and later releases
Platform Compatibility
- Windows
- macOS
- Linux
| Version | Published | Release Notes | Action |
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| 1.2.1 | forgot to upload the files.. |
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| 1.2.0 | recognizes text within native charts in PowerPoint and Word files
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| 1.1.0 | file links open with respective system calls on macOS and Linux |
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| 1.0.0 |
