What program could let me quickly search through 20000 pages of text across 700 pdfs?

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Hello! I am a researcher and I have a database of about 20,000 pages across 700+ pdfs. The pdfs are searchable on a rudimentary level, but I'd need a coding tool (crawler?) that could quickly search through them. Additionally, it'd be great if the software could filter out noise, visualize results and aggregate data. Any suggestions of pre-existing software, or where to get something custom?

What I have tried:

I've looked into OCR but it doesn't seem like quite what I'm looking for? I'm wanting something more like Kibana.

Posted 7-Sep-18 10:31am

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Updated 7-Sep-18 19:22pm

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RedDk 7-Sep-18 18:56pm

Why Kibana exactly, since you bring it up?

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Gerry Schmitz · Answer 1 · 2018-09-07T19:22:00

You're talking "ETL" (extract; translate; load).

You're still only at the "extract" phase; the rest (filter, aggregate, visualize) only comes "after".

You need to be more specific about the "content".

A "simple" "text" scanner can take a few minutes to develop; and even less to run.

(pdfs can contain "text")

http://www.antlr.org/

Once you've gotten at the (correct) "raw" data, you can start "translating" / filtering.