Shell Extensions

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Shell Extensions


 

Editor-Icon Shell Extensions

 


 

PDF-XChange Editor features a windows shell extension. This means that thumbnails of PDF files are displayed in Windows Explorer. When thumbnail mode is being used in Windows Explorer, thumbnails of the first page of PDF documents and displayed instead of standard PDF document icons. This happens when the active folder is set to view medium, large or extra-large icons.

 

iFilter

 

The shell extension includes a very powerful search tool - the PDF iFilter. This tool can be used to index PDF documents with Microsoft iFilter indexing. This means that windows will locate search terms through not only document names, but also text within documents, annotations, bookmarks, document XMP information and files attached/embedded within documents. This process takes place automatically when using the standard Windows search option. The PDF iFilter integrates into existing Windows operating systems and thus provides a convenient way to search text within PDF documents on the local computer and company network/intranet.