Searches are Returning Too Many Results

The built-in search engine in FileCenter defaults to a very broad search pattern. For example, by default FileCenter will:

• Allow two letter deviations per word (to account for bad OCR)
• Match all grammatical variations of each word
• Match all documents that have ANY of the search terms

You can narrow the search results substantially by making a few small adjustments:

• De-select the "Fuzzy" option towards the bottom of the search criteria. This will disallow any letter deviations.
• De-select the "Stemming" option by the "Fuzzy" option. This will disallow grammatical variations on your search terms.
• Place a "+" immediately before each word. This will force the term to be in all search results. For example: +apple +pie. This will only return documents that have BOTH "apple" AND "pie".
• Use quotation marks around exact phrases: "apple pie". This will only return documents that have the exact phrase "apple pie".
• If you know the kind of document you're searching for (like PDF or DOC), use the "File Type" option to only search that kind of file.