Text mode
Overview
Section titled “Overview”Text mode matches the text inside documents by similarity. It reads the words in each file and
compares them, so the same text will match whatever format it is saved in - a .docx and a
.pdf of the same report, or two editions of an e-book.
Supported formats include:
- Documents -
.pdf,.doc,.docx,.rtf - Presentations -
.pptx - E-books -
.epub,.mobi/.azw/.azw3,.fb2 - Plain text -
.txt,.htmland similar
Note: Text can be held in a file with any extension, so the types listed under All file extensions in Search filters are only a starting point. If you enter your own file filter, it replaces the list - any file it matches is read as text.
Text similarity
Section titled “Text similarity”Use the slider to set how similar the text must be: Super loose, Loose match, Good match, Very close match, 99% or Exact match. Looser settings find documents with more changes between them, but may also group documents that only share some of their text.
Ignore whitespace
Section titled “Ignore whitespace”Spaces, tabs and line breaks are ignored when comparing, so text that has only been reformatted still matches.
Ignore case
Section titled “Ignore case”Upper and lower case letters are treated as the same.