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Spotlight is pretty awesome imo. I had problems on previous versions, but that was specific to a corrupt PDF. Stuff like spotlight comments enhances it further. I search something like 25k docs in various formats on my Mac in seconds.

Windows is far worse. They don't have a native PDF search facility (at least on Windows 7) and its sloooow.

iOS, I agree. It's gotten better, but the app search thing is bizarre -- especially since it works so well on Mac.

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I haven't had any problems with spotlight on Mac, in fact I've come to rely on it at work. For searching PDFs of wiring drawings, I can put in a cable tag and it will come back with the documents it found it in. I open them in preview and the search is already filled in and it takes me right to the specific sheet. I guess your use case is different but I wouldn't trade it for any other searches methods I've tried.

Edit: Sorry meant to reply to root.

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