Main question
Im trying to find historic dates(1974,1963 etc) in a pdf file which are located randomly in the pdf file,using Adobe Acrobat DC or Foxit pdf veiwer
Attempts to solve
currently adobe website states that it doesnt support wildcard search, and also i tried using
19**
it didnt match to anything and when i tried searching just
19
well it gave results that are non date numbers along with the required results (almost 500 results popped up)
tried searching it on SE, and got these results, none of them are helpful as answers contain to find pdf file rather than search inside it
Howto search in PDFs using regular expressions?
Is there any pdf reader that supports word searching with regular expression?
Note:Im not trying to search a pdf file , but instead search inside pdf file.
Ideas
- Maybe convert it to word doc and then use the search feature?,but then the file is very huge, it would be difficult for my pc to open a 400 mb Docx file.
