Configuring a plugin |
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You can configure the behaviour of a plugin by double-clicking on the file extension (or selecting the extension and clicking the "Configure" button) in the "Scan options" tab of the Configuration window. Each plugin may vary as to what options are available. The following are a list of options that are available for some plugins: Use description (.desc) files Enabling this option allows Zoom to look for custom description (.desc) files for this file extension/plugin. See "Using custom description (.desc) files" for more information. Image and thumbnail options Clicking on "Configure images" allow you to setup icons or thumbnails for this file extension/plugin type. See "Icons and thumbnails" for more information. Retrieve internal meta information This option extracts Meta information (where available) from the plugin supported files. For example, this may include Author, Subject, and Keywords from PDF files. Retrieve technical data when available This option will extract technical data (when available) from this file type. For example, this may include camera brand, level of exposure, and other data which may be available within an image file format. Scan Method (PDF only) This option allows you to utilize alternative methods of extracting the text content from PDF files. Due to the technical limitations of the PDF file format, the textual content stored within a PDF file can be ambiguous in its order of presentation. For example, text may be split up in several columns, but this may not be defined within the PDF file itself as to when a sentence ends and when it wraps around. It is only structured visually. For some PDF files (it depends on how they were created), the default scan method ("presentation layout") may not be the best at preserving the order of text as intended, and in such situations, you should try the other two methods available: "raw formatting order", and "text layer". Use password (PDF only) This allows you to specify the owner password to be used for extracting content from PDF documents which have password security enabled. Highlight and locate within PDF documents (PDF only) This feature will allow searched words to appear highlighted within Acrobat Reader when you click on a PDF document in the list of search results. Acrobat Reader will also scroll and locate the first occurrence of the word. This feature will only work for Acrobat Reader 7.0 or later. Note that this feature is dependent on the capabilities of the Acrobat Reader application which does not currently support exact phrase matching and substring matching. This means that it may highlight some words which were not the ones specifically found or matched by Zoom in such cases.
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