# Searching of the online documentation of Julia ineffective

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/searching-of-the-online-documentation-of-julia-ineffective/88493>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [October 9, 2022, 6:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/searching-of-the-online-documentation-of-julia-ineffective/88493 "2022-10-09T18:23:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![PetrKryslUCSD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/petrkryslucsd/32/215825_2.png) [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 6:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/searching-of-the-online-documentation-of-julia-ineffective/88493/1 "2022-10-09T18:23:08Z")

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Searching the documentation is frustrating. Lots of barely relevant hits. Some things will never be found.  
Etc.

On the other hand, full-text searching of the PDF is a breeze.

So, I wonder if it would be possible to employ some embedded PDF viewer instead of the  
web-page interface? Does anyone have experience with one of those?

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**Author:** ![jling](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jling/32/212909_2.png) [@jling](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jling)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 6:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/searching-of-the-online-documentation-of-julia-ineffective/88493/2 "2022-10-09T18:24:27Z")

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use [JuliaHub](https://juliahub.com/lp/)

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**Author:** ![PetrKryslUCSD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/petrkryslucsd/32/215825_2.png) [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 6:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/searching-of-the-online-documentation-of-julia-ineffective/88493/3 "2022-10-09T18:26:32Z")

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Sorry for being dense: how?

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**Author:** ![jling](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jling/32/212909_2.png) [@jling](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jling)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 6:28pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/searching-of-the-online-documentation-of-julia-ineffective/88493/4 "2022-10-09T18:28:18Z")

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it’s an effective full-text search so if a pdf search works for you, this should too.

> [@PetrKryslUCSD](#):
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> Lots of barely relevant hits. Some things will never be found.  
> Etc.

you didn’t give example did you?

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**Author:** ![PetrKryslUCSD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/petrkryslucsd/32/215825_2.png) [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 6:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/searching-of-the-online-documentation-of-julia-ineffective/88493/5 "2022-10-09T18:32:05Z")

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Let us say, looking for information on generators.

I don’t know about juliahub. Looks like the same stuff I get for the online documentation:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/c/e/cee360276cc7149a2d48c8211508950158c65a81.png)

PDF? Relevant hit right away:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/5/f/5f7e121476f2490d314fdf62f3f4de38a2233809.png)