Is there a way to use Google Search on an indexed (by google) PDF file to not only search within the PDF, but show snippets or previews of the search results? For example, one or two lines of text after the matching keyword(s)
Google-search – How to use Google to search the PDF document with preview results
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Actually, the pages previews you dislike so much are your ticket to the cached page version – the link to the cached page has been moved into the preview area:
As to the preview itself, there is no way to completely disable it I am aware of. However, if you close a preview by clicking the small closing cross in its right upper corner, previews should only pop up when you hover over the >> area to the right of the search results.
You can make the following your Google bookmark and/or homepage:
https://www.google.com/webhp?tbs=qdr:y
The reason for the link is that there's no way to default the search parameters for "Since"
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Best Answer
The only thing you need to do is add the fallowing line as a parameter in your search query:
'filetype' parameter helps google to understand what kind of files you'r trying to search within, so you want to search in PDF files, so add the 'filetype' parameter with 'PDF' value.
As dangowans says, here is an example query about computer articles within the pdf files:
Basically, google shows up to two lines of the content as the snippets which depends on the query the user types. but if you want to get a little better preview of the pages, you can use plug-ins/extensions for your browser. for example, CoolPreviews and ezLinkPreview are two of the popular extensions for Google Chrome browser.