PDF indexing/searching

[thepez]

Hello all,

I was wondering if anyone has any information about any function and or 3rd party software that can work with PHP to index and search PDF, Word, Excel documents? I am a Cold Fusion programmer starting to go PHP and Cold Fusion has a verity search feature that does this. There has to be something in PHP or products that PHP can use to do the same thing right?

[maxpup979]

Im am not aware of any built in functionality for PHP, however there are a number of tools that can do these things. Check out www.htdig.org for some tools that parse the assorted filetypes (htdig uses several things like pdftotext etc)