Extend search to attachments

[Fabian Frasch]

No bug but a feature request.

It would be nice to be able to seach also in attachments (at least in plain text, office documents, pdf).
One way to approach this would be to generate extra file for these attachments which containt the extracted text (there are tools to extract the text from the documents mentioned above) and also search in these plain text files.

It should be possible to update the index manually (e.g. after changing the document in an external editor or automatically (e.g. by storing a checksum and/or time stamp).
The files should of course not be included in the revision control system.

[Jan Allsman (chmielkoko)]

I agree, this would incredibly increase awesomeness of Zim. It would make doing research notes much easier, something like Mendeley Desktop, but much better.

[netfrettchen (netfrettchen)]

It would be great if the search funktion could at least show attachments whose filenames contain the search string.
This would help a lot.

[Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg)]

Adding the file names to search is relatively easy

Adding content as well needs some tool to extract text from various document types. In that case it probably makes sense to wrap a dedicated search tool into a plugin. If such a tool is available I'm willing to add the required hooks to the search function to allow a plugin to add results.