As I pointed out to Mark off-list, there's an iFilter for PDFs that you
can install for Index Server / Indexing Services. Works like a charm.

To see an example of this in action, go here:

http://www.gpworldwide.com/_sitesearch/default.asp

Search for biosparging.

You should get 3 results, two of which are PDFs.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org 
> [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org] On Behalf Of Hank Marquardt
> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 6:00 PM
> To: Johnson, Mark
> Cc: hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org
> Subject: Re: searching/indexing pdf files from a web page
> 
> 
> I guess this will depend on your definition of 'search' ... 
> so you just
> mean the title(filename)?, perhaps a database of info 
> associated with the file, -or- do you mean search the 
> contents of the pdf file itself?
> 
> That last one doesn't seem plausible ... a quick google search didn't
> turn up anything useful, and running 'strings' on a couple 
> pdf files on
> my machine yeilded nothing useful ... 
> 
> If it's just the filename or you have something in text form 
> that can be
> searched, you can do this with any server side language you choose.
> 
> Need more detail of what there is to work with.
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 12:33:47AM +0100, Johnson, Mark wrote:
> > I have an archive of 500 PDF documents.  I need to create a 
> web page that
> > searches the documents and creates an index of the results. 
>  What's the best
> > way to do this?
> > 
> > Thanks,  Mark
> 
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