php and pdf

[Anon]

Hi,

on my server I have a lot of dpf-files (about 2000). Is it possible to create an index with Adobe catalogue and use this index under php to have an fulltext search.

Best regards

Erik Bartmann

[jbloom]

My recollection is that the indexing technology used by Catalog is proprietary and works only with the Search plug-in distributed with Acrobat and Reader.

What you can do, however, is perform PDF->text conversion and use the results to create your own full-text index. One existing application that can be used to do just that is ht::/dig (www.htdig.org).

[smarlowe]

My vote too goes to htdig. It can index word documents, and many other types as well as pdf documents. We use it on our intranet server, and once phrase searching is implemented, it will be all we need.