Is there any ways to extend the search (find-in-files) capability of WinRAR?

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Published on 2012-10-04T08:49:24Z Indexed on 2012/10/04 9:40 UTC
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WinRAR is good at searching for a string in text files(java, xml, txt etc.) within an archive and it supports multiple archive formats. (rar, 7zip, winzip etc)

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Is there some way to extend this feature (by means of plug-ins etc) to search within Pdf & office files (doc, ppt), Or any other similar unzip tool which has this feature?

(Extracting the entire archive & searching using Windows search is always one option)

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