Search PDFs

Hi,
Is it possible to build a search page that searches the text of PDFs? maybe even search a multipage PDF and return the page number the search text is located in?
Thanks.

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:19:07 +0000 (UTC), funkster
<webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote:

Hi,
Is it possible to build a search page that searches the text of PDFs?
maybe even search a multipage PDF and return the page number the search
text is located in?
Thanks.

Yes but is not easy, this has to do with ghostcript hability to read text
through the PDF as posfix. So for example if you are using Linux and have
ghostcript you could do a:
less archive.pdf

and it will display the text of the PDF. So doing 'grep' will also locate
the word you want to do using:

less archive.pdf | grep (your keyword)

The other way (more modern) is xml which changes from posix to xml
compliant and finally to a stout of the xml tree which is easier to search.

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Thanks for your response, but I'm afraid it is totally over my head. I don't
think I have the knowledge to create something like this from scratch. I have
been searching for something I could buy as an add on maybe, and I've found
something called Zoom by Wrensoft which I think I may be able to tinker with
enough to do what I want to do. Thanks again, Mark.

Thanks for your response, but I'm afraid it is totally over my head. I
don't
think I have the knowledge to create something like this from scratch. I
have
been searching for something I could buy as an add on maybe, and I've
found
something called Zoom by Wrensoft which I think I may be able to tinker
with
enough to do what I want to do. Thanks again, Mark.

Many of the commercial search software packages have this abilty. We're
using DTSearch at our company and it works fairly well.

-Darrel