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Subject:RE: How to do indexng for pdf files ? From:"Fullerton, Elizabeth" <Elizabeth -dot- Fullerton -at- team -dot- telstra -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:39:45 +1000
With Acrobat (I think I've seen it done on 5.0), you can run the cataloging function, which then allows you to search over a database of linked files. Then the user would enter a keyword and be presented with a list of PDFs which contain that word.
The keywords are automatically compiled by the cataloging function - when you have more abstracts to add to the collection, you would have to run the function again over the entire collection.
I've had a bit of experience with some very bodgy freeware search engines - generally you have to enter the keywords yourself into the database, and maintain it manually. Oh, and actually spruce up the code yourself, to make it work more nicely. I haven't had the budget to actually *buy* one!
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