Advanced search options

A search word can contain the wildcard characters "*" and "?". A "?" in a word matches any single character (including a Unicode character), and a "*" matches any number of characters. The wildcard characters can be in any position in a word. For example:

• appl* would match apple, application, and so on.
• *cipl* would match principle, participle, and so on.
• appl? would match apply and apple, but not apples.
• ap*ed would match applied, approved, and so on.
• Use of the "*" wildcard character near the beginning of a word slows the search.

Fuzzy search finds a word even if it is misspelled. For example, a fuzzy search for "appple" will find "apple". Fuzzy search can be useful when searching text that contains typos, or text that has been scanned using optical character recognition (OCR). You can adjust the level of fuzziness from 1 to 10.

Phonic search looks for a word that sounds like a word you are searching for and begins with the same letter. For example, a phonic search for "Smith" will also find "Smithe" and "Smythe". Phonic search is slower than other types of search.

Stemming extends a search to cover grammatical variations on a word. For example, a search for "fish" would also find "fishing". A search for "applied" would also find "applying", "applies", and "apply".

The system displays the most relevant documents to the search. PSIsafe Desktop displays not more than 1000 results for a search. If you cannot find the document within 1000 results, try to include more search terms to further limit the result set.

A numeric range search is a search for any numbers that fall within a range. To add a numeric range component to a search request, enter the upper and lower bounds of the search separated by "~~", for example:

apple w/5 12~~17

This request will find any document containing 'apple' within 5 words of a number between 12 and 17.

Regular expression search provides a way to search for advanced combinations of characters. A regular expression included in a search request must be quoted and must begin with ##. For example:

Apple and "##199[0-9]"

Apple and "##19[0-9]+"

A regular expression must match a single whole word.

By default all words in a request count equally in counting hits. You can change this by specifying the relative weights for each term in your search. For example, the request "apple:5 and pear:1" would retrieve the same documents as apple and pear, but full text search would weight apple five times as heavily as pear when sorting the results.

Weights can also be applied to a field in a boolean search. For example: (Description: 5 contains (apple and pear)) or (author: 2 contains ("John Doe").

Use to display custom columns (Labels 1 through 5) when performing a folder search.

Search documents based on file size. Go to Search > Document Search > Advanced.

Example: You are looking for documents with file sizes between 1 MB and 2 MB.

Set Filter By to File Size (KB)

Set condition to less than or equal

Set value to 2000

Set operator to AND

Click Add.

Set Filter By to File Size (KB)

Set condition to greater than or equal

Set value to 1000

Set operator to AND

Click Add.

Click Search For Documents.

After performing a document search, you can select any combination of documents in the results list and export the column data as a CSV for only the selected documents.