[ic] Search content of a PDF file
Kevin Walsh
kevin at cursor.biz
Sun May 28 20:33:31 EDT 2006
maillists <lists at gmnet.net> wrote:
> I have a client who has about 150 pdf files, and each file contains
> about 20 - 50 pages of text!
>
> They want to have a search engine that can search the content of these
> files, and display at least a link to the pdf files for download.
>
> Is there a good way for IC to do this kind of search, or should I
> integrate some other system for this into the IC site.
>
> My first thought was to copy/paste all the content of each file into a
> database. But I was wondering if there was a way to search inside the
> content of the pdf file itself. Speed is not too much an issue.
>
Swish-e can be used to index the content of PDF files. Interchange
searches can make use of Swish-e indexes (st=swish).
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