Which version of WDS works with the released version of Onenote 20

[Jim.Offord]

I have WDS 2 installed on my computer at work. I am going to install a copy
of the released version of Onenote 2007. Will those two work and play well
together?

 

[Leigh @gmail]

Hello Jim.Offord,

You will need WDS 3.0, you can get that here:

If you have previously used pre-released versions of Windows Desktop Search
3.0, please upgrade to the release version. You can the release version of
Windows Desktop Search 3.0 here:

Windows XP:

http://r.office.microsoft.com/r/rlidOfficeSearchInstallRTM?p1=32&p2=5&p3=1

Windows Server 2003:

http://r.office.microsoft.com/r/rlidOfficeSearchInstallRTM?p1=32&p2=5&p3=2

Windows Server 2003 64-bit or Windows XP 64-bit:

http://r.office.microsoft.com/r/rlidOfficeSearchInstallRTM?p1=64&p2=5&p3=2

 

[msnews.microsoft.com]

Hello Jim.Offord,

You will need WDS 3.0, you can get that here:

Thank you Leigh.

I was looking back through some stuff on Chris Pratley's blog, and it isn't
clear to me if WDS is installed when Onenote 2007 is installed, or if there
is a search engine in Onenote 2007 that is separate from WDS. I am
particularly interested in being able to "print" to onenote, then search on
the text in the file that was "printed". Does WDS 3.0 need to be installed
to do that?

Also, if I drag a PDF file into a Onenote notebook, can that be searched, or
does the file have to be "printed" into Onenote?

 

[Rainald Taesler]

msnews.microsoft.com shared these words of wisdom:

I was looking back through some stuff on Chris Pratley's blog, and
it isn't clear to me if WDS is installed when Onenote 2007 is
installed, or if there is a search engine in Onenote 2007 that is
separate from WDS.

WDS is not installed when ON is insatlled.
WDS has to be installed separately.
Seems that you have partly mistaken what Chris Pratley had said.

I am particularly interested in being able to
"print" to onenote, then search on the text in the file that was
"printed". Does WDS 3.0 need to be installed to do that?

ON does an automatic OCR on images. And everything printed into ON is
an image. So the etxt is read from the images.
You may see what does ins oe far if you mark an image (stuff printed
into ON), then from the right-mouse context-menu select "Copy text
from image" and then paste that on the page or into an editor (f.e.
Notepad).

But that's just *one* setp of two.
In order to search efficiently ON needs to work with *INDEXED* stuuf.
An there WDS comes into the game: It automatically indexes all of the
cotent of ON's notebook (as long as they are open).
And then (and only then) ON is able to search based on the indexes
created by WDS.

Therefore it's a true must to have WDS 3.0 for ON to work like it
should.

Also, if I drag a PDF file into a Onenote notebook, can that be
searched, or does the file have to be "printed" into Onenote?

If one does not import the content of a PDF as text, PDFs printed into
ON result in images. These are treated with OCR and the result of that
is indexed.
Files only "attached" are not indexed.

Rainald