On document dashboards, you will see a search box at the top. This search box has two options – to search the full text (the default), or search the metadata.
Searching the full text will return results from DocumentCloud’s database of PDFs that have been uploaded by Unredacted. It will search the first 150 pages of any document, and highlight text matches in yellow. Results are returned 10 documents at a time.
Searching the metadata will yield a narrower set of results, as it will only search the title, source and description of each document. This may be more helpful if you know the title of the document you are looking for, for example. Results are also returned 10 documents at a time. There are no highlights.
Search Syntax
To search either the full text or the document metadata in the dashboards on collections and the full Archive, use the following guide:
| Syntax | Term | Results |
| Full word | enhanced | documents with the word enhanced. |
| Truncated word | enhanc* | documents with all of the words, enhanced, enhanced, enhancing and enhances. |
| Partial word | enhanc | no documents [only full or truncated terms work]. |
| Multiple words | enhanced interrogation | documents with either word, enhanced or interrogation. |
| OR | enhanced OR interrogation | documents with either word, enhanced or interrogation. |
| AND | enhanced AND interrogation | documents with both words, enhanced and interrogation. |
| NOT | enhanced NOT interrogation | documents with the word enhanced, but without the word interrogation. |
| Phrases | “enhanced interrogation” [must be double speech marks] | documents with the exact phrase enhanced interrogation. |