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Elizabeth Thede

Elizabeth is director of sales at dtSearch Corp. The company offers enterprise and developer products to instantly search terabytes of data with over 25 search options. dtSearch’s own document filters support files, emails, databases and web data. Elizabeth is also a regular contributor to The Price of Business Nationally Syndicated by USA Business Radio, as well as The Daily Blaze and The Times USA. Please see dtSearch.com for links, along with hundreds of dtSearch developer case studies and reviews plus fully-functional evaluations.

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Article August 1, 2019

How you see PDFs versus how a search engine sees PDFs

Instead of retrieving and searching each file in its associated application, a search engine needs to review all files together … Read more

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