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Re: Searching Text in Multiple PDF Files..

Subject: Re: Searching Text in Multiple PDF Files..
From: "Mike O." <obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 06:29:12 -0400


Radwa Darwish wrote:

I googled, and downloaded PDF Searcher and File Hunter but none works. I
want to search for a text string in multiple PDF files at once, does anybody
know any helpful tool?

Adobe makes an iFilter for PDF files; we use this to make PDF files searchable for a web site, but this doesn't work (or at least is not documented to work) with the Windows built-in search:
http://www.adobe.com/support/salesdocs/1043a.htm

These guys appear to have a version of the PDF iFilter that works on an end-user workstation with the Windows Search. I haven't tried this; I'd be interested to know if it works OK:
http://www.ifiltershop.com/pdfplusfilter.html

I wonder how hard it would be to make Adobe's free version work with Windows Search.

Mike O.

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