[muglo] Re: searching-pdf

It seems to me that Acrobat Reader does everything Curt needs at a total 
cost of Euro 0.00 vs Euro 665 for Acrobat Professional (relevant for a 
small, extremely low-budget magazine). On my 400 MHz G3 Acrobat Reader I did 
a search for "turn" in my Desktop folder and found 110 occurrences in 19 
documents in quite a reasonable time. Each occurrence was easily accessed 
from the search results window.

No indexing needed (and some of the documents were created by OS X Save to 
PDF print function).

Eric.

>From: Jim Laycock <jim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: <muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [muglo] Re: searching-pdf
>Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 13:08:25 -0400
>
>Yes, Reader 6 can search indexes, but it can't create indexes ("catalogs").
>You need Acrobat Professional 6 for that.
>
>on 6/22/04 12:59 PM, Eric D at hideme666@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > No need to use Acrobat Professional to index documents.
> >
> > Regular old (free) Acrobat Reader 6 has the ability to search multiple 
>PDFs
> > on disk.
> >
> > Eric.
> >
> >> From: Curt Eiworth <curt.eiworth@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> Reply-To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> To: Muglo <muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Subject: [muglo] searching-pdf
> >> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 12:00:02 +0200
> >>
> >> I am subeditinig and also doing layout for a small, extremely 
>low-budget,
> >> magazine. all material, including ads, is sent to the printer  as pdf
> >> files.
> >> It would be very convenient to be able to do a freetext search on the 
>pdf
> >> files instead of looking up old texts, pix or ads in the hardpaper 
>copy.
> >> anybody know of a search engine that can handle this? or do I have to 
>go
> >> via
> >> perl and regex? that would take me a year - the learning curve is to 
>steep.
> >> grateful for all and any suggestions.
> >> rgds
> >> /curt e
> >> --
> >> Curt Eiworth<curt.eiworth@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> Tel: +46-(0)8-648 0195
> >> Cell ph: +46-(0)70-760 0301

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