A phrase hit can mislead
You may assume a quoted query guarantees that the same words appear together in the document. Consider a page with two unrelated text boxes: one ends with “public” and another begins with “records.” If extraction joins them, searching for “public records” can find an invented phrase. The matcher may be accurate against its input while misleading you about the page. A search hit therefore needs a passage you can inspect. Quotation marks communicate a matching policy; they cannot repair a mistaken representation of the document.
Related words are not interchangeable
Word families help discovery, but they do not define quotation accuracy. “Separable” and “inseparable” share a morphological base while expressing opposite properties. A search for “separable components” should not silently accept “inseparable components” as the quoted phrase. Broader matches may be useful if clearly distinguished. Decide first whether you need the wording, related concepts, or both; otherwise a convenient expansion can answer a different question.
Run a small comparison
Make a test document containing the exact phrase, its reversed word order, an inflected variant, and the two words in separate text boxes. Search with and without quotation marks, then inspect every returned passage on the original page. Record which cases match. For a strict phrase mode, require the stated word order within one continuous passage, subject to disclosed normalization rules. Treat missing passages or unexplained matches as reasons to verify manually before quoting. Repeat after changing search settings, because their defaults may affect results.
Hypothetical: a line break changes meaning
Imagine a scanned manual showing “re-” at a line’s end and “cover” below. Joining them produces “recover,” potentially changing “cover again” into “regain.” Decision rule: accept the joined form only as a normalized match when the wording is unambiguous in context; otherwise retain both readings and verify manually. An unresolved candidate cannot establish exact wording. These examples are illustrative, not reported test results. ABOLTUS is in development.