Add "search" to the view tool
One of the most useful tools when reading a document is the ability to search in the text. Please provide us with this essential tool when viewing the uploaded PDF documents.
Jose
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Matthew Hackett commented
This feature is heavily requested and necessary for proper literature review, yet still hasn't been implemented since its initial suggestion FIVE YEARS AGO. I may need to recommend ReadCube for my department, as pulling PDFs from my Dropbox API backup is getting tedious.
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Gary Kaplan
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Yes, please! This is a key feature for systematic review full-text eligibility screening.
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Gary Kaplan
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Agreed. This would be a very helpful feature.
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Anonymous
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When pdf files are uploaded to RefWorks (attached to a reference in a folder) they load as an image when you 'read' them. Unfortunately this means you can't search for keywords within the document itself, which is different to being able to search within a normal pdf file (using the Ctrl+F function). It would be very useful if this search function was enabled in the RefWorks software.
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Diana
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I completely agree. It is incredibly frustrating that this feature doesn't exist. To me this is an essential part of the research process.
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Robyn McCormack
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Yes, I totally agree. This feature is such a big one, I'm considering changing providers.
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Spencer Mathews
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Please do more than consider this. This is a core feature. If I'm not mistaken, PDFs are indexed for full text search already, which makes the absence of this feature quite strange.