You could also check around - you might find tools for 
non-Windows platforms that can index PDFs. 
http://www.pdfzone.com's search engine reported 300 
hits when I used the phrase "search software."

David
dvjones(at)ksbe.edu

On 23 Jul 2002, at 18:15, Ann Ezzell wrote:

> 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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