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yreg 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: I have many PDFs – what is the best local ...

> decrease the integrity of query results

What does that even mean. When you know the exact keywords then you use full-text.

When you don't know them then other tools can be helpful.

eviks 8 months ago [–]

It means you'd use the same tool since it's more convenient and get worse results in one tool vs. the other

Capricorn2481 8 months ago | [–]

Because they're two different tools for two different tasks. If you expect to always know the exact phrase than, yes, grep will be better. But if you search a semantically similar phrase you will get nothing

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