# Search results returned are incomplete
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-results-returned-are-incomplete/243519
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 3, 2020, 8:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-results-returned-are-incomplete/243519 "2020-08-03T08:06:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Phil795](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Phil795)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2020, 8:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-results-returned-are-incomplete/243519/1 "2020-08-03T08:06:25Z")
I use ES7 to search PDF files.
When I search something with `match_phrase`, I get 2 word occurrences, even though the document has 59 occurrences.
What can be the reason for this? How can I optimize the query?
```auto
{
"from": 0,
"size": 2500,
"_source": [
"filename",
"folder"
],
"highlight": {
"fields": {
"attachment.content": {
"number_of_fragments": 1000,
"force_source": true,
"type": "fvh"
}
}
},
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": [
{ "match_phrase": { "attachment.content": "lorem ipsum dolor" } }
]
}
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2020, 8:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-results-returned-are-incomplete/243519/2 "2020-08-03T08:44:05Z")
Hi Philipp.
> [@Phil795](#):
>
> , I get 2 hits, even though the document has 59
"hits" is a count of documents not word occurrences.
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### Author:  [@Phil795](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Phil795)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2020, 8:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-results-returned-are-incomplete/243519/3 "2020-08-03T08:56:09Z")
You're right, I misunderstood. I am, of course, referring to word occurrences in a document. I updated the question.
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### Author:  [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2020, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-results-returned-are-incomplete/243519/4 "2020-08-03T09:00:40Z")
> [@Phil795](#):
>
> I get 2 word occurrences,
Not sure where that figure comes from because we don't report word occurrences.
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### Author:  [@Phil795](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Phil795)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2020, 9:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-results-returned-are-incomplete/243519/5 "2020-08-03T09:25:58Z")
Hello, Mark,
when I search for a phrase with ES7, the search engine should
Return word occurrences in the specified index. Since I use the highlighter, I wanted to highlight exactly these text passages.
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### Author:  [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2020, 9:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-results-returned-are-incomplete/243519/6 "2020-08-03T09:31:18Z")
I wouldn't rely on highlighting for accurate counting of in-doc matches.
That said, there are some [settings](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/highlighting.html#highlighting-settings) for highlighters where you can increase the number of fragments that are returned.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2020, 9:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-results-returned-are-incomplete/243519/7 "2020-08-31T09:31:20Z")
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