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2/1/2014 9:03:24 AM EDT
What's a good management software for PDFs, preferably freeware?

I have a ScanSnap that I use to scan all my statements, bills, receipts, etc into searchable PDFs. The software that I got with it years ago allowed you to search all the PDFs by using Google Desktop Search or Windows Search (I can't remember which). I lost the disk though. I am having trouble using Windows Search because my PDFs are stored on a NAS rather than on the computer itself. So I guess I'm going to organize everything into aptly named folders for now to help me narrow down what I would be looking for.

The biggest thing that would help would be a viewer that I could scroll through the PDFs to preview them instantly without opening them all with FoxIt or Adobe Reader to see what they are. ETA: something like Windows Live Photo Gallery for PDFs.

After that, it would be nice to have something more powerful to have something like I did before, that would help me manage everything... search contents within a directory, etc.

What's out there that will do what I want?
2/6/2014 12:24:16 PM EDT
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If you want windows search to catch your NAS, you'll have to add it as an indexed location.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/afb904c1-1c61-4aae-b6b1-5cf525b9f8de/how-do-i-get-windows-7-to-index-a-network-mapped-drive?forum=w7itpronetworking

I don't know about previewing them like photos.