"Find on page" for webarchive files

DEVONthink To Go
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I store many .webarchive research documents, and finally try to buy DTTG to search on the go.
From there I learned that I cannot do what safari call “Find on page” in file for .webarchive files, like I can do on PDF files.

I only use DT and DTTG for PDFs and webarchive, so I don’t know whether this issue also happens on other file formats.

I noticed that there is post from 3 years ago addressing same issue but for markdown & rich text documents (cannot make reference as discourse limit me to not include links)
discourse (dot) devontechnologies (dot) com/t/cannot-search-plain-text-or-markdown/22855

please add this capability, or if it already exist, please tell me on how to do it. thank you!

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Slightly off-topic: You might want to consider that Apple has deprecated webarchives. There’s been a thread about this in the DT forum some days ago.

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This is a bit sad. I like webarchive, however imperfect it is. Responsive saved website on desktop and mobile is a good way to save a web.

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For DEVONtech:
any chance the future updates of DEVONthink To Go 3 bring capability to search within plain text and webarchive files?

Currently v3 still has the same behavior as v2 (only search in PDFs)

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It is on the list for the future but it will require updating the text editors too.

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Thanks! At least my >3000 *.webarchive files have quite some more time :slight_smile: