Open and search in Preview.app

[Codeplus]

Hello,

 

I have a simple workflow that searches a folder, within PDF files, for a term. Alfred will list each file that has that term in its results. Preview.app opens when a result has been chosen. This works as expected.

 

Does anyone know of a way to take my search term and put it in the search field in Preview.app, to filter down the results to show just the pages with that term? I have been doing it manually. It would be great to automate it. Searching this forum and Google provided no results for a shell script, commandline switches or AppleScript that will do this.

 

Thanks for reading my post.

[FroZen_X]

Is this what you're looking for?

activate application "Preview"
tell application "System Events"
	tell process "Preview"
		tell window 1
			set value of text field 1 of group 3 of tool bar 1 to "testsearch"
		end tell
	end tell
end tell

Edit: Just saw you also want to jump to the page. This puts the search term into the search field, gotta check how the rest is done.

 

Edit2: Found another way which was posted here: http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/2522-search-in-pdf-files/

tell application "Preview"
	activate
	tell application "System Events"
		tell process "Preview"
			click menu item "Find…" of menu "Find" of menu item "Find" of menu "Edit" of menu bar item "Edit" of menu bar 1
			keystroke "{query}"
		end tell
	end tell
end tell

Edited March 31, 2016 by FroZen_X