PDF as supported format

[weirdalsuperfan]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Not all dictionaries exist in clean formats like mdx. Some are ctrl+f-searchable PDFs. Searching through more than one of those at a time using other programs is a pain, leaving those valuable books to go to waste.

Describe the solution you'd like

Allowing importing pdfs as dictionaries too, and having either a pdf viewer that expands when you click on the result or just displaying a scrollable and possibly default-resizable window in the results wherever each hit in each pdf is, or something like that, would be super awesome.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Acrobat allows opening a folder and searching through that, but I want to always search the same pdfs, and do it along with my other lookups (don't we like goldendict because of speed and how it reduces steps to lookups?)

Additional context

I can see it getting overwhelming if a pdf has the same word 3 times, like in an index or something, so it might require a bit of experimentation or some optional settings to get perfect, but this feature would be huge imo, so please consider implementing it.

[xiaoyifang]

maybe you just need the calibre https://calibre-ebook.com/

[weirdalsuperfan]

I have calibre, but, what does that have to do with searching pdfs? I'd still have to open them all individually every time I want to dig for a word.

[xiaoyifang]

pdf is not designed for dictionary .