09-16-2024, 12:14 PM | #1 |
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Full-Text Search Not Returning Results for Specific Phrases
Hello all, I’ve intentionally added everything to my digital library—it’s all in one library, with no virtual libraries. I currently have almost 100,000 books in it. I’ve been using the full-text search for quite some time, but today I found that something in my library wasn’t searchable via text.
I was searching for a very specific phrase from a specific work, and the search results came up empty. The phrase I was searching for is something exceptionally unique that I know only exists in one work, such as “purple skies at midnight over electric seas.” When I search for it, it doesn’t show up, but when I open the work, I can see it right there. I’m trying not to stress, but now I’m wondering how often this happens. Is there a limitation with full-text search that I’m not aware of? I’m running the latest version of Calibre on Windows 11. Has anyone else experienced this issue before? Is there any way to resolve it? Thank you for your help. |
09-16-2024, 12:22 PM | #2 |
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There is no limitation most likely there is some specific reason that book or phrase could not be indexed, hard ot say without access to the book. Typically it would be a PDF file with images of text.
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09-16-2024, 02:44 PM | #3 |
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Would soft hyphens muck with the search?
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09-16-2024, 03:19 PM | #4 |
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09-16-2024, 04:26 PM | #5 |
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If I remember correctly, Kovid modified FTS to remove soft hyphens back in July, 2022.
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09-16-2024, 04:38 PM | #6 |
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Okay, thank you all for the replies. Apologies, I forgot to mention the file types. The files in question are all EPUBs, so the full-text search shouldn’t be causing any issues. Most of my library is EPUBs, followed by MOBI/AZW. The other formats (PDF, TXT, HTML, etc.) make up less than 1%, and I haven’t really used them in years.
I have the file and can share it, but I don’t want to be shamed for it. May I PM you the file, Kovid? |
09-16-2024, 06:45 PM | #7 |
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On the Launchpad tracker there's an option to flag a new ticket as 'security vulnerability' to make it private. I've done it when reporting bugs related to copyrighted files.
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09-16-2024, 07:02 PM | #8 |
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@Cwluc - if you wanted a "second opinion" you could install an EPUB IFilter and search for the same term in Windows Search.
See Content Search EPUB BR |
09-16-2024, 10:19 PM | #9 |
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Opena bug report, mark it private and attach your file there.
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09-17-2024, 12:32 AM | #10 |
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Well, this is awkward. I noticed the issue this morning before work, so I tried closing and reopening the app, but it still wasn’t working. That’s why I posted about it and updated throughout the day. Now that I’m back home, everything’s working fine, like nothing was ever wrong. So, at the moment, I’m all good. Thanks for the replies and assistance. If the issue pops up again, I’ll pick up from there.
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09-17-2024, 03:02 AM | #11 |
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Was the book newly-added? Perhaps the indexing stalled for some reason.
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09-17-2024, 05:08 PM | #12 |
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That’s a fair question. Unfortunately, no, it wasn’t recently added—it was uploaded on March 29, 2021, and full-text search has been enabled in my library for years now.
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